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...novel's major puzzles are why Brennan, the tough old cop on the surveillance team, has gone wrong after a good career; and why Harry Dell'Appa, the smart, cocky young cop, was banished to the Siberia of western Massachusetts. When Dell'Appa finally figures things out, it's clear that Brennan explained himself in the first few sentences he spoke and that Dell'Appa isn't the only smart, ruthless member of his own family. The novel is mannered and the narration moves crabwise, and some readers may bail out. The rest of us may agree that this...
Many of these market openings could prove to be irreversible as Mexicans develop a growing taste for American goods. Procter & Gamble first exported Pringles potato crisps to Mexico in 1991 and expects to sell more than $5 million worth of the snacks there next year. When Dell Computer began assembling personal computers in Mexico 18 months ago, its new plant promptly shattered the company's record for sales growth. Dell expects annual sales of the Mexican unit to continue to grow by at least 50% over the next few years. "The Mexican economy is becoming more robust and information-focused...
...genuinely enjoy writing these pieces because they're obscenely easy. If you set 10 monkeys down in front of this Dell 210 Workstation, they could crank out columns like this with enough time before deadline to actually read Hamlet. That's because the University of Pennsylvania provides enough intellectual ammunition to supply an entire industry of nasty, lazy, hungover editorialists like me. And that's a pretty tall order, given how many people are nasty, lazy, hungover or some combination of the three. Luckily, Penn never lets us folks down. Here's their latest offering...
...year the price war has claimed as many as two dozen firms, including CompuAdd Computer, a big mail-order firm based in Austin, Texas, that filed for bankruptcy in June, and Everex Systems Inc., a PC manufacturer located in Fremont, California. It has also left many others gravely wounded. Dell Computer is expected to report losses of $68 million this week, its first quarterly deficit ever. Ironically, Dell, which built a $2 billion-a-year business by selling cheap, reliable computers by mail, is being done in by copycat mail-order firms offering bigger discounts...
Ironically, the price war may have strengthened U.S. computer leadership in some key markets. American firms, which feared a takeover by Japanese firms during the 1980s, have exported their cutthroat pricing to Tokyo with stunning success. Led by IBM, Dell and Compaq, U.S. companies sent shock waves through the Japanese PC establishment by trimming prices up to 30%. While Japanese domestic manufacturers, such as Fujitsu and NEC, have responded with deep discounts of their own, they have been unable to shake off the Americans, much to the delight of Japanese consumers...