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Conquering the light-speed computer industry means leaping ahead one cognitive generation and landing in the right place. Few entrepreneurs turn this trick even once; at 52, Clark has done it twice. In the early '80s, as the industry's initial generation of mainframes (see IBM) gave way to a second generation of desktop PCs (see Apple, Microsoft), Clark saw a way to put that data-crunching power to work visualizing information ranging from aircraft fluid dynamics to rampaging velociraptors, then founded the company that made it happen. Fourteen years, 7,200 employees and $2.2 billion in annual revenues later...
...some hard-to-fathom box off to the side. Dick Morris, the President's closely-attended-to political adviser, doesn't even have a formal title. And on the Supreme Court, it has been decades since the titular chief was the real power center. During the 1970s and early '80s, the years of Chief Justice Warren Burger, the court's magnetic field emanated from the direction of William Brennan, who figured out how to attract a majority of Justices to rulings that protected the liberal jurisprudence of the Earl Warren years from the conservative appointees bunching on his right...
...Senate is unlikely to pass a piece of legislation." At the same time, there's a pragmatic streak behind his firebrand conseravtism. By Tuesday, Carney reports, he had sewn up the GOP vote with the support of Republican moderates. Lott's ascension will mark a trend since the '80s that saw the emergence of a new style of conservative Republicans. "This is a top-down takeover," says Carney. "And there are very few self-styled Republican moderates left." Still, until the November elections, Lott is likely to be Dole's man in the Senate, taking his cues from the Dole...
...Senate is unlikely to pass a piece of legislation." At the same time, there's a pragmatic streak behind his firebrand conseravtism. By Tuesday, Carney reports, he had sewn up the GOP vote with the support of Republican moderates. Lott's ascension will mark a trend since the '80s that saw the emergence of a new style of conservative Republicans. "This is a top-down takeover," says Carney. "And there are very few self-styled Republican moderates left." Still, until the November elections, Lott is likely to be Dole's man in the Senate, taking his cues from the Dole...
...growing rapidly because of the coming of age of the baby boomers and a wave of campus construction, the economic "return" from a college degree began to fall; economists nodded their heads with satisfaction at this proof of the law of supply and demand at work. Then in the '80s the return began to rise dramatically because the high-tech economy put more and more value on the degree. Today college graduates earn double what high school graduates earn, or more...