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...well. Gates wants desperately to seize control of the so-called local area networks, where more and more corporate business is done. But the company is having trouble developing a product that can compete with Lotus Notes, which dominates the market for "groupware" (the software that helps people brainstorm over these networks). Novell's NetWare still controls two-thirds of the market for the software that runs the office systems, despite Microsoft's best efforts with Windows NT. And Microsoft's sql Server is still struggling to win customers from Oracle, which owns almost half the market for the critical...
Casey says it is fortunate that Rowe joined the office during as election year. A Congressional recess for the campaign season will give Rowe and his new colleagues time to brainstorm new lobbying strategies and to review upcoming higher education legislation, Casey says...
...middle of the conversation, the L.D.P. leader suddenly had a brainstorm. On a recent trip to Yugoslavia, he said, he made valuable contacts with Serb businessmen who could be of use to his district. His Serb friends could be persuaded to put up a mini-bakery or mini-dry-cleaning service in Shchelkovo. "What you need are little things which are of immediate use to the people," he explained. "A mini-bakery would bake excellent bread." He turned to his chief of staff, Gennadi Kazantsev, and said, "Put it all down...
...eight years, followers fruitlessly scoured the sect's treasure house and monastery in Rumtek, India, for clues; pressure mounted on the four high lamas acting as interim regents. Finally, a regent named Tai Situ had a brainstorm. For 13 years, he had worn a prayer amulet given to him by the late leader, which he had never opened. Now, he says, "it suddenly struck me, the message could be here!" And lo, it was; and conveniently specific too: the child would be found "to the north in the east of a land of snow ((Tibet))/ A country where divine thunder...
...respect" department: This past Tuesday night, Crimson reporters were scrambling around like chickens with their heads out off trying to scoop the other heavies in what was undoubtedly the biggest story of the year: this year's commencement speaker. While five Crimeeds furiously tried to brainstorm as to who the "crowd-pleasing women" could be (that was the only tip they could manage to get). FM sat watching this debacle for a good half-hour, chortling away in our private mirth before we called our imminently dependable (and totally hush-hush) source. Within minutes, FM found out that the speaker...