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...sushi as cold, dead fish," says Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Milonovich. "Right now they just don't have much of an Internet aura." Company officials admit they've been a little bit late to the I-party, losing critical market share to Sun in the server business and playing catch-up with its highly touted e-services offerings. "Clearly, we need to reinvigorate things here," said Fiorina upon taking the reins from outgoing CEO Lewis Platt, who nevertheless drove HP's sales to $47 billion and its stock price to a record high of $118 a share...
...tangerine or blueberry, comes the iBook, Apple's "iMac to go," a clamshell-shaped laptop that promises to do for the portable market what iMac did for the desktop--sell like crazy and leave the rest of the industry playing catch-up. The iBook, available this September, morphs iMac's elegant, curvilinear design and Life Savers colors into an affordable portable (see chart) with a bunch of minor innovations and one major one: AirPort, a PC version of the cordless phone. AirPort's snap-in card and UFO-shaped "base station" (a $400 optional package) allow up to 10 users...
Although the College first opened its doors to African-American, Jewish and other minority students long before other Ivy League colleges, the embarrassment of race-based prejudices, both explicit and latent, forced the Office of Admissions to play catch-up in the 1970s along with the rest of America's predominantly white institutions...
...Playing Catch...
...race started out as a game of catch-up for Yale. The Crimson jumped out to a two-seat lead at the half-mile mark, but by the mile mark, the Bulldogs had pulled even...