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...there is a huge gap between his fond wishes and their possible fulfillment. Some of them have a memory. By the time of the 1992 election, "the new world order" had become mere evidence of the hubris of a President who seemed awed by the scanner at a supermarket checkout. "We had this problem in the early '90s," said a State Department official last week. "You know--'It's a new world, we can do everything.' Our rhetoric was way ahead of where it should...
...made it possible for various people to send vast amounts of information along a network at the same time. You never hear data complain, do you? The gist of it is that you can use a complicated mathematical model to predict, say, how many people will arrive at a checkout counter at a certain time--and therefore staff just the right number of folks needed to meet the demand. Unfortunately, all too many companies seem to divide that number by two. Starbucks tries to predict how many customers will come in and what drinks they'll order in each store...
...Bush has made, on the whole, a surprisingly good start, putting distance between himself and 2000's electoral wreckage. He has gotten two unexpected windfalls: 1) the Clintons' shameless Kansas City checkout from the White House (the pardons, the $190,000 trousseau, the most corrupt sale of indulgences since the Reformation) has managed to make Bush look unexpectedly presentable by contrast. And 2) Alan Greenspan, Czar of All the Russias, came forth to say that W.'s tax cut might be a good idea after all. In other words, the frat boy had figured it out even before Greenspan...
...small, but the vibe is pure Wall Street. The pin game is all about smart networking and sharp dealing, snaring the trophies you want by trading your duplicates rather than forking out cash. Dedicated pinheads have been known to loiter in the lobbies of five-star hotels at checkout time, hoping to talk corporate Games visitors into parting with their "guest pins" before they head to the airport - where other pinheads may be lying in wait. And the game is getting bigger: During the Atlanta Olympics, an estimated 3 million pins changed hands...
...started when Joseph Park wanted to buy the latest John Grisham novel. He logged on to Amazon.com found the book in seconds and proceeded to checkout. But the list of delivery options and shipping charges left him so nonplussed, Park says, that he eventually gave up and drove to a bookstore to buy it in person...