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...money." Speed's victory would be one for the independent entrepreneurs (the Racers are literally a Mom-and-Pops outfit) over the-global industrial complex. Which is fine, except that the Wachowskis, backed by uber-producer Joel Silver and Warner Bros., are not exactly underdogs. Indeed, they need vast resources to mount the lavish spectacle they've envisioned...
Kerr's examples of organized criminal activity in Britain represent the final retail link in a vast chain of production, distribution and sale of criminal goods that is every bit as entrepreneurial and growth-oriented as the most dynamic global corporations. There are now few major crimes which do not involve syndicates in several countries, usually in more than one continent. Israeli crime groups, for example, have for some time controlled the export of ecstasy tablets into the U.S. In a perfect example of globalization, a gang headquartered in Tel Aviv was able to mastermind the export of drugs manufactured...
...businessman who worked in Russia during the turbulent 1990s. "They were essential for the free market." The gangs of Sofia, Moscow and Prague were the midwives of capitalism. In Russia, the new entrepreneurs - or oligarchs, as they were called - could use their guile to seize control of Russia's vast energy and metallurgical sectors, building empires worth billions of dollars, while the living standards of ordinary Russians plummeted...
...much more difficult to combat crime. Winer and his colleagues identified the development of a coherent global anti-money-laundering strategy as key in trying to stem the shadow economy's swelling river. But it proved an uphill struggle. The sums involved in the liberated capital flows were vast. By mid-1990, the foreign-exchange markets alone reached a volume of trading that exceeded $1 trillion every day - more than 40 times the value of daily global trade. Keeping track of such flows and their origin at a time when corporations, banks and private-equity firms were warning against...
...Lovett’s sung fantasy of future domestic bliss with Sweeney, is one of the show’s most poignant moments.Sondheim develops these two central impulses—toward love and companionship on the one hand, revenge and destruction on the other—into the vast network of scenes and characters that comprise his vision of 19th-century London. The show’s skeletal set, designed by Grace C. Laubacher ’09, changes from a courtroom to a city street with ease. Its many wooden posts also have the irritating habit, however, of obscuring...