Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps one reason the 1980s fostered entrepreneurship is that during the decade Big Business tended to grow even bigger as companies merged and improved already dominant positions. In industries as diverse as banking, airlines and brewing, the major companies increased their market share. That in turn presented the opportunity for upstarts to begin filling the niches too small to be noticed by the behemoths...
...technological heritage by investing in such diversions as carpetmaking and rental cars.) High-tech corporations, says Ferguson, need a heavy capital base to pay for research, computer networks, manufacturing systems and worldwide organizations for sales and customer support. Upstart U.S. firms, too small to bankroll their own factories, often turn to Japanese companies for manufacturing help or sell their key technologies to raise capital for expansion and product development. A common result: the erosion of overall U.S. market share...
...after, the Sisters of Charity opened a similar home in London. It was largely at that home, in the 1950s and 1960s, that Dame Cicely developed her ideas for a modern hospice that would bring physical and spiritual peace in the face of death. The end of life "can turn out to be the most important part," says...
Jaruzelski seemed to signal a shift in mood late last week at a special meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee, when he called for a "brave new turn" and the "courage to break stereotypes" in dealing with worker grievances. Jaruzelski's remarks followed a television address by General Czeslaw Kiszczak, the Interior Minister, who offered to open talks with representatives of "different social groups" to end the unrest. While there was speculation that the Kiszczak statement hinted at possible talks with Solidarity for the first time since 1981, the offer was greeted with skepticism by Poles, who have heard...
...Carlucci and Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stressed that the Vincennes' captain, while under the difficult circumstances of engaging armed Iranian speedboats, had less than four minutes in which to make his fateful decision. The ship was heeling at 32 degrees in a sharp turn. "Things were falling in the CIC ((combat information center)), lights were flickering, and in the background, guns were booming," said Carlucci. The sound of bullets hitting the ship's hull rattled the crew. Rogers, said Crowe, had to assume that "the relentlessly closing" aircraft, which had taken off from...