Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staircase of her St. Petersburg apartment, appeared to be a professional piece of work. The killers tracked her from Moscow, and were not fooled by a last-minute change of her travel plans. Security sources say the hit bore the marks of the special services, Russia's blanket term for the security police and intelligence bodies. The sources speculate that the killers, reportedly a man and a woman, were either moonlighting security police or former operatives now working for the underworld...
...without much male leadership, has a history of social deviance and was merely a commodity in college. How do we handle guys like him? Coach Green has tried to provide an environment where they can succeed." Some, though, aren't so sure whether Green is enjoying a little short-term luck juggling a ticking time bomb. "Randy Moss has shown what everybody thought. He is an extremely talented player," Miami Dolphins coach Jimmy Johnson wrote recently in Dolphin Digest. "Whether or not he's going to be playing in this league three years from now, time will tell...
...later, when he officially retired, sales were $463 million. The company, still family controlled, had 1997 revenues of $11.3 billion; its projects range from a transit system in Athens to a semiconductor plant in China. These and others are fruits of Steve Bechtel's forward thinking--decades before the term global economy became a cliche...
...they set goals for market share, they needed to focus on the share of stomach, not the share of carbonated beverages. His adversary was water, not soda. By this definition, Coke's 40%-plus market share became 3%, changing the company's view of growth. He then redefined the term global for a company that was already seemingly everywhere. By 1997 he pushed Coke's overseas profits up to nearly 80% of total earnings, from 65%. This global view was reflected in people too. Goizueta gave real meaning to the word diversity, developing a multinational talent pool. He also became...
...websites has led to a democratization of data. The Microsoft Network and many others give us--almost free!--information that was once limited to high rollers, everything from where to get the best deals in credit cards, mortgages and bank loans to often valuable advice from professionals on long-term market strategy. So consider how far we have come: a century ago, the messengers of Messrs. Dow and Jones hustled tips to a few fat cats on the Street. Now the Net brings a plethora of business information to one and all. And that can only be called progress...