Word: ende
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Wednesday, the NASDAQ's losses have hit 43 percent, which makes 2000 quite simply the tech index's worst year ever. For tech stocks, we're not talking bear, we're talking crash - a steady slide that started in March and is only picking up speed at year's end. All fall, traders talked about the need for "capitulation"; now they're calling it panic, and it's going around Wall Street like an Asian...
...end Israel's doves opted to back Ehud Barak, although the strength of the challenge by Shimon Peres suggests they're not exactly bullish about the prime minister. The leftist Meretz party ended Peres's hopes late Thursday, by declining to nominate him as a candidate in Israel's prime ministerial election on February 6. That's good news for Barak, whose supporters have been pleading with Meretz to support the prime minister so as to avoid splitting the peace camp, although the strength of the challenge by arch-dove Peres bodes ill for Barak's efforts to regain...
...stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class were patting themselves on the back for spreading democracy into hitherto authoritarian climes, Kaplan was prepared to question democracy's significance in understanding the global dynamic. Indeed, Kaplan sees the anarchy of sub-Saharan Africa as but a preview of the fate that awaits...
Chile's supreme court on Wednesday threw out an indictment and arrest order against General Augusto Pinochet. Does this end efforts in Chile to prosecute the former dictator...
...exactly parrot market orthodoxy. For one thing, they explicitly bemoan the loss of one of the key policy levers of the Cold War era - the targeted projection of U.S. economic power. If it weren't for the Marshall Plan, most of Western Europe would have gone communist at the end of World War II - at the ballot box. Plowing billions of dollars of aid and investment into Europe also created the domestic demand that boosted the U.S. economy into its golden age of postwar growth. But the idea of targeting aid and investment in pursuit of foreign policy goals...