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...number cruncher has calculated that just five minutes a day of O.J. office gossip would have cost the country $27 billion in lost productivity, but surely there's been more gossip than that. Add in the daydreaming, lapses in concentration and visits to psychiatrists for post-O.J. trial letdown syndrome, and you have a serious recessionary undertow...
Hagstrom's detailed description of Buffett's modus operandi has caused a bit of confusion among Buffett followers. Inspired by the book, a number cruncher at Standard & Poor's took all the attributes of a Buffett-type investment (consistent profitability, high return on equity, etc.) and programmed a computer to spit out the names of the companies that qualified. Thirty did, but only two of those stocks are actually found in Buffett's portfolio at Berkshire Hathaway. As the Standard & Poor's computer sees it, most of Buffett's biggest holdings, with the exception of U.S. Tobacco and Coca-Cola...
...Software in this category often appeals to both kids and adults. The Oregon Trail, from MECC, sends users on a simulated journey along the famous trail. Along the way, they grapple with many of the same problems that the pioneers faced, such as how much food to carry. The Cruncher, from Davidson, has a practical aim: it introduces kids to spreadsheets and accounting principles by asking them to figure out the full cost of activities such as planning a vacation or owning a pet. Microsoft's Dinosaurs brings the beasts back to life in gripping detail that includes the tyrannosaur...
...wanted to get back to writing and journalism," says Collins, 35, who as an undergraduate at Harvard had been a member of the Lampoon, the university's satirical periodical. And so he abandoned the frenetic life of a number cruncher for the frenetic life of a magazine editor, spending three years at Spy, the Lampoon's de facto postgraduate outpost, before joining us last year to put his sharp, imaginative wit to work as the founding editor of this publication's Chronicles section...
Even as Defense Secretary Dick Cheney moved last week to put the Tailhook scandal behind him by naming a squeaky-clean number cruncher as Acting Navy Secretary, the Pentagon found itself embarrassed by new reports of sexual harassment and misconduct in the Navy...