Word: cliff
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...area.) The East Coast headquarters of Cisco Systems, planning to boost its work force from 550 employees to 2,000 in the near future, is hiring at an even faster clip than company plants in Silicon Valley. "We chose North Carolina for a number of reasons," says Cliff Meltzer, who runs Cisco's Research Triangle facility. "But none was more important than the region's ability to produce and attract well-educated and qualified workers...
...America going to try Simpson forever and ever, until he is darn well found guilty by someone, somewhere, sometime?" ALAN D. BROWNLEE Copper Cliff, Ontario...
American Indians harvested vast quantities of buffalo by stampeding them off cliffs. Because these buffalo ran blindly ahead, they unwittingly followed the rest of the herd to their death. Your recent guide contained no reference to the Macintosh family of computers and contributed to the Windows herd mentality. Shouldn't you ensure that people have their heads up and eyes forward, so they will not run mindlessly off the cliff? GUY KAWASAKI, Apple Fellow Apple Computer Inc. Cupertino, California...
...afternoon"--but she looks doubtful even as she says it. Ultimately, she hopes, the striving for success they've grown up with will check the urge to rebel. "I want to be like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and stop these kids from going off the cliff," she says. "But then I look at the breadth of the problem and think...
...ridiculous conclusion. A Pepsi ad, for instance, features a boy on the beach drinking a Pepsi who then sucks himself into the bottle. Japp, a European candy bar, runs an ad where a West Indian man, having eaten the candy bar, mistakenly pushes a Porsche over a cliff. The slogan is "Japp--Extra Energy to Push You Over...