Word: globally
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...sure, automaking has become such a globalized business that the nationality of cars is increasingly blurred. GM owns 38% of Japan's Isuzu, 50% of South Korea's Daewoo Motors, 50% of Sweden's Saab-Scania and 5% of Japan's Suzuki, and shares some manufacturing operations with both Toyota and Suzuki. Those alliances give GM global reach, but the automaker was in danger of evolving into little more than a holding company if it did not relearn how to manufacture competitive cars in its own plants...
Education for Action is a resource center at Radcliffe College for Harvard-Radcliffe students interested in social change and local and global issues. E4A has been sponsoring student events and projects for social change since 1966. Daniel Sharfstein '94 Education for Action Student Board
...solid is the global reinsurance system? No one really knows, but less solid than it ought to be. The 1970s run-up in interest rates attracted scores of companies that didn't understand the business, that were easy marks for unscrupulous operators and that had not established decades-long relationships of trust. "It used to be, the handshake applied to any kind of dispute, and you very rarely had disputes" -- as one reinsurance executive was recently quoted. "Things are more complicated today...
...conference, organized loosely around the theme "The Global Crisis," includes more than 100 panels and workshops such as "Socialism and Democracy" and "Organizing for Mideast Peace...
...sage's question could apply equally well to the global coalition that the U.S. has put together to oppose Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. And the answer is the same: perfection cannot be expected, but its absence is an acceptable price to pay for the strength that comes from the support of a wildly diverse alliance...