Word: chain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talks of retirement (Grove considered it in 1987 but changed his mind), the CEO is building a management legacy. Last spring the company tapped Craig Barrett, a former Stanford materials-science professor and longtime Intel executive, as the new president and Grove's successor. And behind Barrett is a chain of bright, driven engineers all lusting for the top spot. Meet intense contenders like Intel V.P.s Paul Otellini and Sean Maloney, and you'll have little worry about a leadership vacuum. Chairman emeritus Moore sometimes comes to the office, looks around and says he sheepishly thinks, "I'm not sure...
...Tamagotchis Sneer if you wish; years from now we may find ourselves wistfully recalling these beeping, needy key-chain creatures not as '97's Pet Rock--or rather not just as '97's Pet Rock--but as technocultural landmarks: the first mutable digital life-forms to win our children's hearts. Let's hope their descendants don't learn to talk...
...Avoid chain letters and spam. Chain letters demand that you forward them to some number of people, threatening horrendous consequences...
...would think that at this institution of higher learning, people would know not to do something just because someone tells them too. But the persistence of chain mail proves this to be incorrect. It might also help your resolution if you knew that sending chain mail is against HASCS policy...
...think the game was on my shoulders," Feaster said. "It's like a chain reaction--once a couple of shots fall, good things just happen...