Word: delling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many Okies to tramp through Harvard’s halls, only one has ever come from Enid—Melissa L. Dell ’05. She remembers her hometown fondly as “the sort of place where getting on the Dean’s list in junior high is a big deal...
...might imagine, Enid, OK was even more shocked after news broke that Dell had won a Rhodes Scholarship. Although she feels honored, she recognizes that it tends to estrange her from others. “It’s sort of like getting into Harvard, except that the other people [the rejected] are classmates,” Dell says...
...takeover battle. Still, the judges stopped short of a full acquittal, invoking the statute of limitations on a related bribery charge, implying some degree of guilt. The sunny skies lasted for less than 18 hours before a Palermo court brought some rain by convicting Berlusconi's longtime confidant Marcello Dell'Utri of colluding with the Mafia, and sentenced him to nine years in prison. Dell'Utri was a key executive for Berlusconi's business empire and helped form the Prime Minister's Forza Italia party; he will appeal the verdict. Berlusconi wasn't implicated in the case, but the verdict...
...World Trade Organization in 2001, tariffs have plunged and foreign rivals have swarmed the country, forcing domestic firms to cut their prices. Although China's economy is still booming, prices for consumer goods actually fell 1% through October this year. Lenovo, which has been under threat domestically from Dell, has seen gross margins from its corporate PC business fall from 14.8% last year to 12.4% in the second quarter of this fiscal year. "Chinese are buying foreign companies out of desperation because of shrinking margins at home," says Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of China Economic Quarterly...
...decade. Last year, however, those enterprises had a loss of $29 million. The company then reversed tactics and went down-market with "village computers" selling for $350 a pop. But that didn't work either?overall sales in the second quarter fell nearly 10%. At the same time, Dell's market share in China has nearly doubled in three years to 7.3%, with sales almost exclusively to wealthy corporate clients and government agencies. Just last month, the Ministry of Education switched from Lenovo to Dell in a $20 million deal, according to two Dell executives...