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...addition, though wage stagnation seems to be easing, workers' insecurity remains high. The layoffs that have accompanied technological change have been burned into their minds like code on a ROM chip. The weakening of labor bargaining power, inherent in a global economy where jobs and investment can be shifted freely, has led to what William Greider in the Nation calls a "widening gap between an expanding production base worldwide and an inability of consumers to buy all the new output...
...years Grove enforced that narrow margin with a quick, violent temper--the polar opposite of his mentor, Moore. New employees at Intel suspected it was a management trick: Andy getting mad to get results. What they discovered was that the anger was real. Grove had an internal code of excellence, and when someone didn't live up to it, he hammered him. In 1984 FORTUNE named him one of America's toughest bosses. Sometimes even he recognized that he had gone too far. "After I cooled down, I apologized," he wrote of one '80s encounter that had him bellowing...
Information goes either to a code cache, which stores the instructions that tell the processor what...
...World War II double agent; in London. Serving time on the Channel Islands for his sticky fingers, Chapman was sprung by German occupiers who sent him to blow up an English factory. He faked the demolition with the aid of a master illusionist and returned to Germany a hero--code-named "Zig Zag" by his new friends, British intelligence...
...other hand, if a student started with a design that from the start wasn't very good, it would take a lot more code to implement it and they might have a lot more trouble getting it to work," he added...