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Word: opening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...help the Chinese discover what went wrong with their rocket, but simply reviewed China's own analysis. In general, though, it may actually serve American strategic interests to have China use U.S. technology. "There are lots of reasons why we'd want the Chinese to make phone calls on open equipment that we sold them rather than closed equipment that they made themselves," says Under Secretary of Commerce Bill Reinsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Companies Leak | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Indonesia is the site of Freeport's most important asset, the Grasberg open-pit mine, developed under the auspices of the Suharto regime. A giant crater scooped out of a mountainside in the jungles of Irian Jaya, on the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, the $60 billion mother lode contains one of the world's largest single deposits of copper and gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freeport's Lode of Trouble | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...prosper; if you are slow, you die. Casualties are high. Now both NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange want you to venture into those badlands. Both exchanges made it clear last week that the 4 p.m. closing bell will signify nothing come fall. The markets will stay open till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afraid of the Dark | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

There is only one problem. The whole existence of a fair market in which to raise and invest capital depends on ample liquidity and equal access to information for all. Right now, the hours between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. E.T. present the most honest, open and, yes, perfect market in the world. That's when the institutions know they can handle high volume and be assured of the best executions, the cherished "market order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afraid of the Dark | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...putting in longer hours, and as a highly paid Wall Streeter I should just shut up and deal with it. After all, trading stocks has become the national pastime, and as in the case of its predecessor, day games just don't draw enough crowds. Night sessions will open up a huge West Coast market and add those individuals who can't day trade because their bosses won't let them. If the exchange doesn't harness this audience, competing entities certainly will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afraid of the Dark | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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