Word: dram
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Board players revel in the notion that they are in the know. They note that the boards are often filled with such vital information as strategic plans, growth projections, competitive analysis and sophisticated discussion of new products. In the Intel folder, contributors regularly discuss dram pricing and its likely impact on the stock price, while in the Merck board, doctors have weighed in with their views of Fosamax, the company's new osteoporosis drug. "It's the kind of concrete information Wall Street used to have a monopoly on because they were the only ones with the money to perform...
...facts and anecdotes by omitting materials that could dilute his arguments. The book includes a fascinating chapter on Japan's domination of the computer-chip industry in the 1980s, but it skips over new statistics showing that a South Korean firm is now the leading producer of low-end dram chips, while U.S. firms continue to control the more profitable high-end part of the business. Meanwhile, Japan's computer-hardware industry is in the doldrums and its software firms have yet to make their mark...
Last March, the Eliot senior confounded most in the swimming world by capturing third place in the 400-yard IM and sixth in the 200-yard backstroke at the NCAA championships. Those performances were good enough to secure his childhood dram: an All-America selection...
...wholly different taste experience from Laphroaig, one of the tangy, medicinal whiskies produced on the isle of Islay (pronounced EYE-la). Part of the appeal of these whiskies, in fact, is their craggy names. Once you've learned how to pronounce it, who can resist ordering a dram of Bunnahabhain? (Try Bu-na-HA-ven.) Worldwide, the single- malt sales leader is Glenfiddich, owned by William Grant & Sons, but in the U.S. it runs a distant second to the Glenlivet, produced by Scotland's oldest licensed distillery (1824) and a shrewd purchase by Seagram...