Word: capitalistically
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...drive and too long to walk. As cities around the world move to push bulky, polluting cars out of their congested downtowns, he predicted, Segways would become the urban transporters of choice. He wasn?t alone in his enthusiasm. Such renowned investors and entrepreneurs as John Doerr, the venture capitalist who helped midwife Amazon.com and Google, and Apple?s Steve Jobs, vied for a piece of the Segway pie and did their bit to hype the machine before its anticlimactic launch. Doerr told TIME that Segway would become the fastest company to hit $1 billion in sales. Steve Jobs ventured...
...John Doerr, a founder of the Greentech Network, is a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in Menlo Park, Calif...
...should be "cheaper" to be green. The price of not being green is charged in some pretty abstract ways. How, exactly, do you put a price on melting ice caps or thawing tundra? The costs of being green most often come about in what we as a Western, capitalist culture understand best - money. Stephen Van Scoyoc Althorne, England The Enron Verdicts I appreciated the viewpoint column on the Enron verdicts by the company's whistle-blower, Sherron Watkins [June 5]. I agree with her argument that humility is a basic ingredient of a spiritual life. No matter how often...
...price of gas to go down? Stop driving so much. Take the bus, ride a bike, take a walk, join a van pool, take the train. Buy hybrid cars, and trade in your Hummers and suvs. And once in a while, stay home. The natural order of the capitalist economy will take care of the rest. Then we can we stop blaming the oil companies, the government, the Arabs and the terrorists for the price of gas. Lee Kann Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. It amuses me no end to see Americans carping about gas prices while paying less than they...
...auctioneers, who value the painting at about $150,000, must not have taken that chapter to heart. "We feel it's just like any other art product," says Huachen spokesman Mei Ligang. "There's no difference between it and other paintings for sale." Spoken like a true red ... capitalist...