Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't want to appear to be "poaching" China's best players. While a Chinese star would help ratings, a big indigenous basketball market may be even more important. And the Chinese want to win. They have hopes of a medal in Sydney next year. Though Beijing has permitted a few soccer players to work in Europe, its Sports Ministry keeps them mostly at home, training, Soviet-style, for the next Olympics. China's free market does not yet extend to national treasures like Wang...
...saying. Believe what he's doing. CBS needed to make this deal. It makes sense. Relaxed regulations make it possible for a company to own both a TV network and a studio that creates its content. And until August, companies could own only one TV station in a market; now they can own two. This change sparked a new round of merger negotiations...
...ocean-spanning satellite cameras, the viewing public is warned earlier ?- and titillated more meticulously ? than ever before. Like voyagers to Kong Island, we heard the slow, ominous drumbeat long before we glimpsed the beast. Eye-popping computer models, resplendent in oranges and greens, swirled on television screens; mass-market CNN and cultish Weather Channel competed for wide eyeballs with nonstop coverage. On September 11, CNN.com could already trumpet the coming of Floyd "picking up steam," though it was still in its Category 2 infancy, crawling at 10 mph, and hundreds of miles from the Florida Coast. On the 14th...
...gamble is paying off. "Half-Life" is still at the top of the market after close to a year on the shelves, and Valve's latest project, "Team Fortress 2," is in the final stages in development...
...true Lampoon style, "Mission Hill" boasts about five Lampoon graduates, which is about average for the animated comedy market...