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eBay is also the Internet's clearest example of a company that has exploited its "first mover" advantage. The lore among Internet strategists was that whoever nabbed Web space early would have a commanding commercial lead. The failure of a long list of early-bird dotcoms, from CompuServe to eToys, has proved that wrong...
...consumers, Bush's laissez-faire approach is likely to be painful. The new President backs hundreds of millions of dollars in extra funding for an energy-assistance program to ease the burden on the poorest Americans. For everyone else, high prices could be around for a while. The clearest indication of that came from Kenneth Lay, the chairman of Enron, the Houston-based energy giant that is the nation's largest power marketer, with a major stake in California. Last week Lay warned that California would have to resolve a "pretty much self-inflicted problem"--even if that means price...
...with night skies that rank among the clearest and darkest on Earth, Mauna Kea offers an unsurpassed view of the heavens--and that's why, despite the harsh conditions, astronomers can't wait to visit. Stargazers come here from around the world to answer some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos: When in the depths of time did galaxies first flare into existence, and what made it happen? What is the elusive dark matter whose mass dominates the universe? How many stars have planets--and do those alien worlds harbor intelligent life...
...clearest example of this principle is the issue of trust. The election-year promises of a habitual liar would be untrustworthy and easily disregarded once in office, and our votes would be wasted on falsehoods rather than used to build real policies...
...shift is clearest, though, in hard numbers. In January, investors poured a record $40 billion into stock funds, and $29 billion of it went into aggressive-growth and growth funds--the ones that own NASDAQ stocks. The rest went into sector funds, which are 75% invested in tech. Equity-income funds and growth and income funds (which favor blue chips) had outflows. Bond funds also had outflows--a hefty $10 billion worth...