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...spread slowly, largely because companies avoid dispensing anything that approaches individual tax advice and there's nothing in it for the IRA industry. But financial planners I've spoken with endorse the strategy with such vigor that you have to worry about hype. This isn't a no-brainer. And the pitfalls include the risk that you'll wind up overly concentrated in one stock. You also have to pay a tax up front...
...their demanding travel schedules. This policy allows firm employees who are away from home an average of four days a week to take every other Friday off. It's an important tool for recruiting and retention; as Tom puts it, "the choice between family and work is a no-brainer--so why make people choose?" When I say that four days of travel per week still doesn't seem normal, they argue that they "don't work on weekends" as do many consultants and most investment bankers. "Wherever you go from a place like Harvard, you are going to work...
...seems like a no-brainer. Call waiting has been around for more than a decade, so why does it slip into a coma when I'm surfing the Web on my home computer and a friend tries to call me on the same line? After all, a modem connection is just another phone call. But for all our high-tech wizardry, my friends still get a busy signal even if I'm just deleting junk e-mail or downloading a song. I may get a little drowsy at the keyboard, but I can still multitask--if only my PC will...
...finding that Microsoft is a monopoly was a legal no-brainer, once the court accepted the government's narrow definition of the relevant market: PC operating-systems software. If Microsoft--which owns more than 90% of that market--isn't a monopoly, then nobody is. Microsoft tried to argue that its Windows operating system was under constant threat and could be made obsolete at any moment. But the competitors it listed hardly seemed like giant killers. Upstart Linux, the open-source operating system that Microsoft speaks of so fearfully, currently runs less than 3% of all PCs. Even...
Coatsworth said his support for the petition was "pretty much a no-brainer...