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Merrill Lynch tech analyst Steven Milunovich recently suggested that cash-rich firms like Microsoft should begin paying dividends to shareholders. Then consumer advocate Ralph Nader wrote an open letter badgering Microsoft chairman Gates to do just that...
...year-old man-child perches on a chair and turns the fan up to high. Yellow paint peels from the walls. There is no running water. The bed is a dirty mattress on a steel frame. But enthroned on a makeshift table sits a workstation worthy of a cash-rich start-up. The man leans toward his crisp, new 19-inch monitor and gets down to business. He surfs to the archive of an online florist and peruses someone's recent order for roses, complete with a mushy love letter. But this man, a hacker who uses the online handle...
Until recently, Dreier and his fellow Republicans had managed to separate the two issues. Cash-rich, labor-hungry Silicon Valley companies have been pushing Congress to make it easier to import programmers and engineers rapidly. To satisfy the Valley, Congress wants to raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas for the second time in two years...
Boeing was phasing in these and other reforms when aircraft orders, which had been no-shows at the start of the decade, suddenly arrived in droves. With cash-rich economies fueling air travel in the U.S. and Asia, carriers took off on a buying binge. Boeing suddenly faced the task of transforming the way it builds planes while furiously ramping up production of new jets. "I've described it as trying to change the tire on my car while going 60 miles an hour," says Condit...
...upstart Russian flock. Even Congress has gotten serious, passing legislation Thursday that would withhold $200 million in U.S. aid if the bill is signed into law. But that $200 million carrot may have precisely the opposite effect. Yeltsin endures constant carping that he is too often the marionette of cash-rich Western governments; if he rejects the bill now, even citing constitutional concerns, it will appear to Yeltsin's critics simply that he has taken a bribe. Faced with that quandary, Yeltsin gave Moscow a wide berth Friday and headed off instead to an elite holiday resort on the Volga...