Word: marketization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard is in the market for a new contractor to finish the work, and the striking workers are asking that they be allowed to finish the jobs they started...
...case highlights the sophisticated methods adopted by narco-traffickers to bring their wares to market despite the war on drugs. Colombia and Mexico have long complained that while they?re routinely pilloried as the source of the problem, the massive demand for drugs in the U.S. creates an incentive for traffickers to develop sophisticated paramilitary structures that infiltrate law enforcement and other state bodies in order to beat drug-interdiction efforts. Smuggling cocaine off a U.S. military base dedicated precisely to stopping its flow may mark a new level of boldness. But as long as there are fortunes...
Just what we needed -? more network television. Hacking away some regulatory tangles that dated back to television?s infancy, the FCC decided Thursday to permit a single company or network to own more than one station in a given market. In those media markets with sufficient "media voices" -? at least eight individually owned TV outlets and a nice mix of cable, newspapers and radio ?- the remaining stations are up for grabs. Meaning a network giant like Fox can now have another channel for all those "Cops" reruns that we?ve been dying...
...lawyers for Debbie Lovett, 36, sounded like they?d watched a tobacco trial or two in their time. They claimed that Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, a subsidiary of American Home Products, knew the dangers of fen-phen?s dangerous half, fenfluramine, long before the FDA yanked it off the market in May 1997 -- and hid their research from an unsuspecting public. Which left the defense spluttering that Ms. Lovett?s obesity carried its own risks; she knew what she was getting into. The jury didn?t buy it. "It?s not like cigarettes, where everyone supposedly knows they...
...Sony's next-generation console, expected in the fall of 2000--will blow it out of the water. So why bet a couple of hundred bucks on a minor-league player like Sega? Dreamcast, however, has a 12-month head start on PlayStation II. Past experience in the console market suggests that quality ultimately matters less than the ability to build up a loyal base of customers. So I resolved to give Dreamcast a chance...