Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever expanding lexicon of corporate jargon you may now add "risk- sharing partnership." That's how Boeing chairman Frank Shrontz describes arrangements like the one between his company and Germany's Deutsche Airbus/ Deutsche Aerospace, which announced plans for a joint research effort last week. The risk the two giant jetmakers may share: development of a supersonic high-speed civil transport, an updated and larger Concorde-type airliner that could whisk 300 passengers at twice the speed of sound...
...Republican Guard -- specifically, to form an advancing blockade from the west that bottled up the Iraqi forces. Schwarzkopf said the British units performed the job "absolutely magnificently." In addition to the gutsy, low-flying attacks on Iraqi airfields by British pilots early in the air war, Britain's partnership in the ground campaign proved the forces to have been what the U.S. commander called "absolutely superb members of this coalition from the outset...
...Kremlin's new approach is a far cry from the "partnership" with the U.S. that Gorbachev proclaimed during the heady days of 1989, when he pulled Soviet troops out of Afghanistan and liberated Eastern Europe. Some conservatives have concluded, with as much glee as alarm, that Gorbachev is returning to the bad old days of the cold war. That characterization is not just simplistic -- it misses the irony of what is happening. The emerging U.S.-Soviet interplay is in some respects a throwback to the even older days of razzle-dazzle realpolitik, before the era of a global, Manichaean struggle...
...emphasis is on cost control." On Wall Street during the past two years, more than 60,000 jobs have been lost as merger mania ended and the bull market stalled. Largely as a result, big accounting and law firms that served the merger makers have slashed their partnership rolls. Last month the accounting firm Peat Marwick abruptly dismissed 300 of its 1,875 partners, protecting profits by chopping highly compensated senior talent...
...Science and Policy. But the convulsions will undermine Western confidence in the Soviets as a worthwhile economic and military partner. The rapid improvement in East-West relations depends on a reforming Soviet Union. If Moscow is turning the clock back, the West will find it hard to keep that partnership alive...