After the Meiji Restoration, in 1868, Western influences began to appear in embroidered Japanese formal wear, while newly opened markets led to kimonos designed for export.
With the cold war ended and globalization the rage, poor countries were told to place their faith in newly opening markets and expanded free trade, not handouts from wealthy nations.
In the face of newly opening markets, intensified competition, and the need for increased scale, many CEOs have put the formation of cross-border alliances on their agendas for the 1990s.
There was nothing prudent about remaining subscale in a newly open market, prey to foreign multinationals.Gautam Thapar, chief executive of the Avantha group, which includes Crompton Greaves, an engineering firm, cites a similar motivation for some of the company's overseas acquisitions.
The newly open markets of Central and Eastern Europe consume 660 billion cigarettes a year, and crave American tobacco: Philip Morris's market share has grown from 22% in 1995 to 28% in 1996 and may reach 32% this year.
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Undaunted, the couple took a food stall at the newly opened Camden market in north London, selling hamburgers and sausages.
Italy objects to EDF's involvement in its newly opened power markets because France has been slow to deregulate its own market.
Of course, it was not just oilmen who took advantage of the newly opened desert markets of Libya.
At the newly opened Dover Street Market New York on 30th Street and Lexington Avenue, walls are covered with polka dots and shoes are sprinkled in glitter.
The sting took its name from Abdul Enterprises Ltd., a Long Island company the FBI created as a cover for the sheiks, who said they wanted to invest their oil wealth in the United States — for example, in the newly opened Atlantic City casino market — and also obtain permanent residency.
