Word: digitization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lucrative payoff: more than $40,000 for each property it leases, plus royalties as high as 25% on the sale of the uranium ore. For some Navajo landowners that could translate into more than $1 million a year--a nice paycheck anywhere, but especially in a region with double-digit unemployment and an average annual income of less than $10,000. Hydro Resources president Richard Clement Jr. says his company will eventually employ about 150 local workers to develop the site, one of the two largest beds of untapped uranium...
...will now give them another look. "Apple is back," insists senior vice president Mitchell Mandich. "Morale's up, and people are excited again. They know what we're focused on." He says the new iMac will even "help us be cool again." Cool is good. But having a double-digit market share again would be even better...
...Home mortgages, for example, are fairly riskless propositions for lenders, but the reward is tiny--perhaps 6% a year in interest payments. On the other hand, lending money to the government of Malaysia is fairly lucrative, but it is not an investment for the faint of heart--the double-digit interest rate brings with it risks of a devaluation, a government coup or an outright default...
Those are the facts, and the results were no better for the Crimson. Harvard (20-19,4-0 Ivy) was swept by UMass (27-12), 3-2 and 2-0, in Amherst. Henderson (16-6) improved her streaks to 16 games with double-digit strikeouts and 122 innings without allowing an earned run, although the Crimson did manage to snap the latter in the sixth frame of the first game...
Here are the facts: the UMass softball team had a 0.96 ERA, the fifth best in the nation, going into yesterday's double-header with Harvard. Minutewomen pitcher Danielle Henderson had struck out double-digit batters in 15 consecutive games and had gone 117 straight innings without allowing an earned run. The Harvard softball team was averaging only four runs per game. HARVARD 2 UMASS 3 HARVARD 0 UMASS...