Word: trade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forthright have websites been about telling users what data they're unwittingly providing? Not very. Last spring the Federal Trade Commission studied 1,400 sites and found that only 14% had posted privacy statements of any kind (though 71 of the 100 busiest sites...
...painful cure, including possible tax increases and spending cuts. Its success or failure will decide not only the well-being of the world's ninth-largest economy--and the preservation of the strong, dollar-pegged currency, the real--but also possibly the fate of the global system of free trade and investment...
...surprising for the IMF to defend itself so vigorously while failing in its task of reviving moribund economies. Why doesn't the IMF follow the example of the World Trade Organization, which is implementing a systematic and slow liberalization of trade barriers to allow the competitive upgrading of domestic industries before they must compete on a par with external economies? The IMF asks countries to do the impossible in a short period of time. But the best way is not the free-market way. NELSON LOW Singapore...
...waiting room full of patients. People no longer just go to the closest hospital or the one their parents went to. They're reading articles and surfing the Web, and looking at quality rankings. And smart hospitals are out there hustling to win over these skeptical consumers. In the trade, that means having a marketing strategy...
...fair offers not one but two species of animal to take for a ride. Up to five children can ride on the powerful elephant as it lumbers within the small enclosure, an idyllic joyride on one of nature's gentle giants. Outside of this peaceful scene, however, concerned parents trade stories of elephant ride horrors. "I heard that this elephant went nuts and bit its trainer in the mouth," an excited mother says to a friend, "Then it knocked the trainer over and stomped on his chest. I also heard that it threw a kid off its back once...