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Genomics can help increase productivity by ramping up the identification of target proteins and by increasing the efficiency of drug discovery. Says Ben Conway, principal at Boston venture-capital firm Adams, Harkness & Hill: "Genomics was going to be the Holy Grail. Now people appreciate that it's come down to proteomics"--the large-scale analysis of proteins...
...from San Francisco ad agencies and high-tech outfits like Agilent to steelmakers in Pittsburgh, are breaking the taboo. "We did a 7% layoff that probably would have been 15% had we not done some creative things," says Charles Morgan, 58, CEO of the database-management firm Acxiom, of Conway, Ark. In April the company made a 5% reduction in salaries for people earning more than $25,000, then gave stock options to 2,000 other employees who took a voluntary 5% cut. "Not only did we save 400 or 500 jobs," says Morgan, "but everybody...
...that time is spent on activities like shopping or watching TV together. In a survey conducted last year for TIME and the Nickelodeon channel, 24% of kids felt their parents showed little or no interest in what they studied at school. Says Kim Joiner, a technology consultant at Conway Middle School in Louisville, Ky.: "It's very popular to say we have a problem in education, but it's not very popular to say we have a parent problem...
...wrong product or service in the wrong place. A booze ad on a gasoline nozzle could send the wrong message, and a supermarket floor is probably not the place to advertise luxury jewelry. The genre's growing popularity also risks subjecting consumers to ad fatigue. Admits Nigel Conway, a director at MediaVest, a media buying agency: "It would be disappointing if you saw ambient ads every time you turned a corner." Conway thinks the industry has exercised restraint...
...Doors in concert. In 1994 my 17- and 21-year-old sons were playing my Doors tape all the time. Your illustration of the baby wearing Kiss-style makeup, holding up a cigarette lighter (nice touch), looks just like my granddaughter. What goes around comes around. DAVE CONWAY Oxford, Conn...