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...They've been buying back stock religiously, and it's very cheap. I'd make the argument that security is growing as a percentage of corporate information technology spending, and it's more resistant to recessionary cutbacks. Another software company that we like is Autodesk. If you're an architect and want to translate your thoughts or drawings into a computer-generated model, you use Autodesk's drafting software. They have an absolute dominance of this business...
...heart attack; in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The play is based on Miller's experiences on his high-school basketball team, but he is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-nominated performance as Father Damien Karras in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist. DIED. BRUNO CAVALIERI DUCATI, 96, architect, author, and last surviving founder of the motorcycle company that bears his name; in Ispra, Italy. DIED. PERRY COMO,88, causal crooner whose career in show business spanned six decades; in Jupiter, Florida. (See Eulogy) DIED. R.K. NARAYAN, 94, prolific novelist and author of short stories that characterized subcontinental village life...
...decades and a few heart attacks later, George W. Bush tapped Cheney to be the architect of his long-term energy policy, and after months of closed-door pondering with his task force and consultations with energy-industry lobbyists (including a luxurious half-hour chat with Kenneth Lay, CEO of Enron), the Hillary Clinton of energy emerged with 105 suggestions stretching over 170 pages...
...just the kind of shield that Bush was proposing. In the quarter-century since he had put Safeguard out of its misery, Rumsfeld had become convinced that national missile defense was not only technologically possible but also essential to America's national security. He had become its chief architect, salesman and even evangelist...
...escalated the commitment, Lyndon Johnson cautioned, in his typically gaudy rhetoric, that defeat would compel us to retreat to the beaches of Waikiki; his aides, whether or not they believed it, dutifully echoed the party line. Only afterward did Robert S. McNamara, the former Defense Secretary and a pivotal architect of the war, confess that "we were wrong, terribly wrong"--cold comfort for the families of the 60,000 names on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. Senator Max W. Cleland of Georgia, a paraplegic veteran, said McNamara's book should have been titled Sorry 'Bout That...