Word: alsop
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...majority of questions were directed at me, although certainly McNealy and [Netscape's James] Barksdale were jumping in and telling their side of the story whenever they could. All the panelists except [FORTUNE columnist] Stewart Alsop said that no new legislation is needed and that regulation would be a very bad thing. In fact, McNealy was very hardcore on that point, which is great, because it is very consistent with his political beliefs. It was good to hear Netscape say those same things--that they don't think any regulation is required. People I talked to afterward thought...
This group included such men as Time and Life publisher Henry Luce, future Secretary of State Dean Acheson, future head of the Central Intelligence Agency Allen Dulles, columnist Joseph Alsop and others who felt the need to prod the Roosevelt administration toward greater support for the Allies...
...Stewart Alsop is editorial director of InfoWorld, a weekly for computer professionals published in San Mateo, California...
...that fail to fit ( comfortably together. IBM solved a similar problem in the 1960s when it launched a family of computers called the System/360, which were all compatible with one another. "IBM has to find a way to pull its product lines together into a coherent whole," says Stewart Alsop, editor in chief of the trade journal InfoWorld. "That's the question about Gerstner: Does this guy know enough about computers to know what makes a good product?" Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who is both a supplier and a rival for IBM, puts it more delicately. "I don't think...
Even if Clinton had planned his vacation in a more organized and less comic fashion -- if he had lined up that condo on Hilton Head Island in March -- he would not have taken full advantage of the opportunity an August progress can provide. When columnist Stewart Alsop visited Lyndon Johnson at the L.B.J. Ranch while Johnson was President, he was driven to make the most unlikely comparison: the L.B.J. Ranch, it occurred to him, had "odd echoes of Chartwell," the country place of Winston Churchill. "Mr. Churchill was marvelously and unashamedly proud of everything about Chartwell . . ." Alsop said years later...