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...Texas: IBM once was legendary for the large signs it hung in its offices reminding workers: THINK. But these days, thinking can be hazardous in some companies. Take Evan Brown, a former employee of DSC Communications. After the company found out that Brown had dreamed up a way to convert old computer code into an easier-to-use computer language, DSC demanded he turn over the idea, since he had signed an agreement which gives the company ownership of anything he develops while on staff. Brown, who says he developed the idea on his own time, won't budge, insisting...
...Prodigy's long-awaited CD is supposed to convert the electro doubters. Says James Lavelle, head of England's influential Mo'Wax Records: "[The Prodigy] is one of those bands that do everything right: the right records, the right videos, it looks right, it does the show right." Says band member Flint: "We're not trying to be faceless and thinking that makes us interesting. We're up-front. We're saying, 'Look, if you're going to come out and see us, we're going to rock...
...would later call the "distinguishing characteristics" of his genital area. In fact, the idea that Clinton would drop his shorts in front of a woman he had just met initially sounded unbelievable, even to Gennifer Flowers--though Flowers now passes word through a spokesman that she has become a convert and is eager to testify on Jones' behalf at a trial. Presumably Flowers would recount once again her own story of a 12-year affair with Clinton...
...industrial manufacturers that ring Ross County, the challenge is to convert the old economy to the new, which often means better profits but less hiring. National City Bank of Columbus surveyed 50 companies in the county and found that they projected $165 million in investment over the next three years but a net loss in new jobs. Workers who can't keep up with changing technology are finding fewer and fewer plants that will hire them: they don't want the $5.50-an-hour jobs, but they don't have the skills for the $12-an-hour ones. Richard Rahrle...
With intermarriage, as with assimilation, it is not often the case that Jews convert to Christianity; they "convert" to mainstream Americanism, which is the American "religion" closest to Judaism. They see no reason not to follow their heart in marriage, their convenience in neighborhoods, their economic opportunities in jobs, their educational advantages in schools, their conscience in philosophy and their preferences in lifestyle. Most Jews who assimilate do not feel that they are giving up anything by abandoning a Jewishness they know little about...