Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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One reason colleges are curbing tuition increases is to attract those middle-income students. Rice University in Houston uses its $3 billion endowment to guarantee that tuition for sophomores, juniors and seniors will not leap ahead of the consumer price index. Another reason for restraint is concern that public outrage...
Speaking at the Graduate School of Education, Lisa M. Quiroz '83, publisher of People en Espaol, and Roan Kang '96, the magazine's marketing manager, said the consumer data, which was collected over the past two years, could be used by businesses to target a growing new market of Spanish...
The most commonly cited consumer of bandwith is Napster, a company whose software allows users to search a growing community of other computers for music files in MP3 format.
The force sustaining the economy's extraordinary performance is you. Consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of all business activity, and with record low unemployment, better pay and the effervescent stock market, Americans spent 5.3% more in 1999 than they did the year before, the largest gain in 15 years...
With such good news, why did Wall Street freak? In a word: inflation. A report by the University of Michigan showed that consumer confidence soared in January to an all-time high, suggesting that the consumer spending binge is far from over. Other fresh signs emerged showing that the scarcity...