Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Some of the busiest telephone lines these days are those between phone-company executives putting together mergers. Last week the circuits were jammed, as giant GTE announced plans to acquire Atlanta-based Contel for $6 billion and form the nation's largest provider of local service and second-largest cellular-phone company. A shadow was cast over the agreement, however, when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit, charging that insiders had bought Contel stock before the accord was announced...
...habits, of course, die hard. Even bargain hunters can get carried away when confronted with tempting prices. And many shoppers still rationalize luxury purchases as investments. In Santa Monica, Calif., the local Lexus dealer cannot keep the $40,000 Toyota sedans in stock. Customers say the car is worth much more than its sticker price. Posh shops on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills continue to be packed. But the days of wretched excess have passed for most consumers. Some of the same folks who dropped expensive brand names like credentials last year are impressing their friends by rattling off discount...
...learned that the press box was the only part of the ancient stadium that had undergone renovations.) I wasn't thrilled about the large beetle I had to scrape off my seat. But what really made me nervous was the presence of only one telephone in the box. The local radio station was using it for its direct feed. How would I send my story...
...slide was signaled three weeks ago when Russian Communists chose Ivan Polozkov, the hard-line party boss of the southern Krasnodar region, as their standard bearer. The right-wing political coup appeared to have caught Russian party reformers by surprise. They had clearly underestimated the depth of resentment in local party organizations with everything from political change in Eastern Europe to schemes for converting military assembly lines to the production of consumer goods...
President Fernando Collor de Mello said last week that the government had to "stop Rio from becoming a new Chicago." Local critics suggested that a better comparison might be with Medellin, Colombia...