Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inaugurate an era of reforms ? opened Friday, the party was already preparing for the monumental transformation of state-run stores into private enterprises, reports TIME Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime Florcruz. In typical Chinese fashion, though, party chief Jiang Zemin stops short of Western "privatization," instead calling for a "common ownership" system under which workers will be sold stock in most of China's 370,000 state firms...
...public company that could tap the stock market for funds to sustain its rapid growth. To be sure, the company can still show investors some impressive fashion strengths. Versace boasts highly skilled design teams, for example, that can respond quickly to changes in the marketplace. And the company's ownership of a majority stake in 10 of its manufacturing licensees enables it to turn the latest ideas off the street into ready-to-wear merchandise swiftly...
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE This expansion was electrically powered. As the decade began, about half of all factories were electric, the rest mostly using steam. But by decade's end, more than 80% were on electricity. Household earnings rose; unemployment averaged 4.7%. Car ownership grew from 8 million to 24 million. In 1928 Herbert Hoover declared, "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land." Oops...
Citing trimmed hedges, newly-laid mulch and the addition of signs which prohibit overnight parking, Alami said that since the University announced its ownership, Beal's maintenance of the parking lot has gotten better...
...Dell said she was not concerned about upkeep when Harvard took over the ownership because she feels "they want to keep it up in a way that would be consistent with their reputation...