Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DreamWorks SKG--has ever been involved in making, the eagerly anticipated animated epic The Prince of Egypt. Kilmer is not in the upbeat mood that the scene requires. He started off well enough--"It's fun to be Moses," he said at one point--but everyone in the control room can feel his spirits sagging...
...poem with the poem itself written into it--the planks of the bridge brusquely indicated, the calligraphy mingling with the broadly brushed leaves of water iris as if it too were part of the reed growth of the pond. And yet the whole image has an iron control within its spontaneity. This casual rightness of design cannot be feigned. It was rooted in the desire to understand nature by becoming part of nature. And Edo art, at its best, was all about that: the fusion of nature and culture, at a level of craft that is now lost...
Union Camp and Mobil had simply lost control of their fate. For years these commodity companies had gone through booms and busts along with the world economy they played in. But for the past decade it has been nothing but bust. The new economy, with its focus on cost cutting and price competition, has tamed inflation to the point that each year Mobil and Union Camp faced progressively lower real prices for their products. Both companies had done pretty much everything they could to wring out costs, but it still wasn't enough...
...winners from the demise of Mobil and Union Camp will be the remaining players--assuming the deals are approved by shareholders and regulators. The only way to get pricing under control is to take out capacity. Exxon's takeover of Mobil could lead to somewhat higher gas prices, as a price-cutting competitor gets vanquished. And International Paper's stock looks that much better, knowing it won't have to compete with Union Camp. Both companies can strip sales, marketing and technology spending out of the budgets of their prey. It is remarkable how much duplication and overlap can exist...
...best things on the net, as in life, are free. That's especially apparent to those of us milking the cow that Microsoft and Netscape are fighting over. The cow, in this case, is the browser--that vaunted piece of software that allows one to navigate the Web. Control the browser and you get to influence the experience of anyone using it. That's why Netscape and Microsoft have been competing so strenuously for your patronage. And that's why we're getting some of the most exciting and useful tools ever created, for absolutely nothing. If only carmakers behaved...