Word: moving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bright engineer foundered when confronted with practical policy decisions. Habibie boasted of being able to "leapfrog" low-skill industries, which would have given needed employment to the country's vast mass of unskilled laborers, and move straight into expensive high-tech ventures. The billions of dollars of public money he spent on his strategic companies did little to advance industrial development. His most extravagant pet project, a $2 billion attempt to build an indigenous aircraft, the propeller-driven N-250, was deprived of state funding as a condition of IMF assistance...
...informal cease-fire gradually took hold within the city in the early '90s. "Both sides realized that they could not win a military victory," says Donncha MacNiallais, a former I.R.A. member who became a community worker in the Bogside after serving 10 years in prison. To encourage the move away from violence, Britain, the U.S. and the European Community poured money into Northern Ireland to fund community groups and self-help schemes. Local agitators, including dozens of former prisoners, were given offices and mobile phones in the hope that they would begin worrying about funding targets, not bombing targets...
...Gelson's Markets, an upmarket grocer in Los Angeles, shoppers can order a brick-oven pizza or a chinois chicken salad at an in-store Wolfgang Puck's To Go and dine by a roaring fireplace in a cozy corner of the market--a move that would have once seemed about as down-market as getting ready for a date at the makeup counter at Macy's. The Ukrop's chain, based in Richmond, Va., has been selling prepared meals since the mid-'80s. Today 45% of store space is devoted to selling 130 takeout items, which are freshly prepared...
...notes. The narrowly written requests, carefully shaped by Justice's allies, demanded items of such specificity that when the Feds arrived, there was little the recipients could do but swallow hard and hand over the goods. "We really laser-beamed it in on them so there was nowhere to move," says an executive who aided the probe. "We tried to make sure it wasn't just a couple of companies; we wanted to hit the entire industry so that everyone had a little cover. That way Microsoft couldn't train the guns...
...Microsystems (workstations) and Oracle (software) are already good long-term buys and, if things go badly for Microsoft, will do marginally better. But browser company Netscape and PC networker Novell are roadkill. It rarely pays to bet on a tech turnaround. Better to just pay your respects and move...