Word: needfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...globalization as of democracy vs. corpor-ocracy. Globalization has the potential to gradually lift all countries to higher standards for the environment, labor laws and justice. Instead, the WTO, multinational companies and governments are using globalization and open trade to circumvent democratically enacted laws that emphasize the need for a better quality of life and more balanced values. KERRY MCDANIEL Berkeley, Calif...
Thank you for your article about the self-sterilizing "terminator" seed and the bioengineering of the foods we eat [TRADE WARS, Nov. 29]. The concept science has created is both fascinating and scary. Fascinating because new varieties of plants could help decrease the need for pesticides and herbicides. They could also boost food production. Scary because the scientists can't truthfully tell us what the consequences of eating this food might be. They don't know what will happen when wild crops are cross-pollinated by bioengineered crops. People have the right to know what is in the food they...
...product that offers the most flexibility is the Matrox Marvel G400-TV, a $300 kit consisting of an advanced graphics card that slides inside your PC (you need a Windows machine with a Pentium II 233-MHz or faster processor) and an external hub that takes analog video from myriad sources (VCR, cable TV, camcorder) and puts it on your computer screen. The accompanying software, called Avid Cinema, provides the easy-step editing tools. The quality of the new video you create is only as good as the original source, however, so you won't be able to touch...
...edited footage back on VHS or compress it for delivery over the Net. For my first project, I dug up tapes of my brother performing in grade school productions of The Boyfriend and The Wizard of Oz to string together his solos (he was the Lion). Now all I need is his girlfriend's e-mail address...
...shelf space. That investigation is ongoing. And last month French authorities rejected Ivester's $840 million bid for the Orangina soft-drink business. Observes John Quelch, dean of the London Business School: "The power of global brands may be strong, but they are not strong enough to preclude the need to cultivate [government] relationships at the national level...