Word: localization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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This interpretation was challenged in 1988 when local residents filed a lawsuit which charged that several new developments violated the terms of the freeze...
Eastern Europe remains a risky, often maddening place to do business. One of the first tasks of Western companies is to retrain local labor forces that grew slack under communism and lack disciplined work habits. Simple bookkeeping can be a major problem: East European companies have been taught to follow central plans, and know little about Western-style profit-and-loss statements. At the same time, Eastern Europe's infrastructure is woefully inadequate for modern industry and commerce. A recent study by the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank estimated that the region would require 274,000 miles of new roads...
Does school-based management lead to more effective teaching or merely create problems for already overburdened educators? Three case histories illustrate the gains -- and some pains -- that can result from more local control...
...offset Hachette's estimated $400 million U.S. debt. Murdoch's News Corp., reportedly $6.5 billion in debt, will soon begin experimenting with the venerable but faltering TV Guide, adjusting the magazine's iconic size and format in an effort to become more accessible and compete with proliferating local cable guides. Leslie Hinton, president of Murdoch Magazines, rejects speculation that foreign investors want out of the U.S. altogether. "Things go up and down," he says. "It would be pretty shortsighted of us to abandon the market right...
...elder Kim has kept his nation ignorant of the tumultuous events shaking the rest of the communist world. The only "news" allowed in North Korea is local propaganda. As a result, North Korea is not a place where the citizens are clamoring for democracy...