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Even before Sept. 11, the $40 billion-a-year data-storage industry was experiencing brisk demand for its products and services, as companies found all sorts of efficiencies through instant access to digital information on customers, suppliers, partners and employees. But the terror attacks have reminded many more companies around the U.S. and the world that, after their employees, their data are their lifeblood and should be mirrored live in at least two locations or backed up on tape and remotely stored...
...could simply take advantage of the brisk weather and let my little boobie-bullets make unsuspecting passers-by go absolutely wonky with disbelief, envy or dog-in-heat desire. But I can’t really justify kicking my breasts into high gear only to have them freeze up and fall off, shriveled and stunned at having been exposed to brutal, Boston-style, 90-mile-per-hour, “but-it-was-75-degrees-yesterday” winds. No, these suckers are staying locked away for now, destined to spend this fall-winter season behind Gap?...
...content. Perhaps you’ve slogged your way through an exhausting week of work and even the alphabet seems beyond your realm of intellectual comprehension. Or perhaps it’s that vague, disquieting sense that nature, despite its splendor, no longer resonates with you; that the brisk, crackling intimations of autumn have failed to permeate your senses. At any rate, you’re listless, apathetic. You feel, in a word, gross...
...Welcome to the fourth quarter. Stocks opened October 1 with a sort of "so be it" attitude, slipping dutifully at the open, stabilizing quickly, slipping again. Nobody's feeling ecstatic, but no question there's some shopping going on. Volume is brisk. The Fed is going to cut rates again Tuesday - almost certainly - and yet movement to quality (Treasuries at home, the dollar from abroad) is discernible...
...Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. In his office on the 11th floor, behind his big wooden desk with its neatly organized stacks of CDs, Jive president Barry Weiss is a crackling wire of energy, jumping up to fetch a DVD from a shelf, scribbling memos, barking orders in a brisk, rat-tat-tat fashion. The walls of the native Long Islander's office are decorated with the trophies of two decades of conquests--half a dozen gold and platinum albums...