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...redefine what can remain confidential, and that is in the world of business, where trade secrets are increasingly perceived as precious commodities that need protection. The global economy relies more and more on companies that create and sell knowledge, but their employees are less inclined to keep the boss's secrets, owing to either diminished loyalty or the high rewards for selling out. The FBI has put the cost of industrial espionage at more than $100 billion annually. Of the first 24 cases prosecuted under the Economic Espionage Act, 18 involved corporate insiders. The latest high-profile example: pink-slipped...
...Crisis averted; chalk up another for Daniels, who has been doing this sort of thing all year. Bush, in his half-descriptive, half-self-promotional way, has nicknamed his budget chief "the Blade," and from the start Daniels? mandate was clear: be the sharp, merciless business end of his boss? conservative desire for smaller government...
...Senate for fiscal 2001, only three have exceeded the limits of the budget resolution, and discretionary spending growth is set to top out at 6 percent. Not bad work with a Congress coming off the 8-percent pork-fest that was Clinton?s last budget - and with a boss who couldn?t resist making additional spending requests of his own. If the original budget surplus estimate had only held up, there would have been plenty...
...equipped with shovels and concrete blocks and barbed wire, began to build the Berlin Wall. It was yet another dark development in the crisis-ridden first summer of John Kennedy's Presidency. There had been the Bay of Pigs in April, then the June summit in Vienna where Soviet boss Nikita Khruschev pounded the table in Kennedy's face and declared that partitioned Berlin was "a bone in my throat" he intended to be rid of soon...
That's terrific for Furr and his boss, Jure Sola, who will run the company after Sapp retires next year. But it is the end of an era for the old hands at SCI, formerly Space Craft Industries. The Huntsville, Ala., company was founded in 1961 by Olin King, a former NASA engineer who subcontracted for the space agency. SCI evolved into a major manufacturer of PCs and then, under Sapp, who became CEO in 1999, diversified into optical and wireless technology. In fact, at the nadir of the current tech slump, the company in March bought Nokia factories...