Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also more cautious about his borrowings--one of the most important precautions any business can take. "People who are worried that we may have a recession need to reduce or eliminate their debts," says economist Allen Sinai of Primark Decision Economics. "In a recession your income may drop and your ability to repay debt will be greatly diminished...
...Atlas Asia-Pacific, which distributes paint and automotive oil in Asia, management used a combination of work-force reduction and other strategies to save itself from diving markets overseas. Atlas, of Burlingame, Calif., suffered a catastrophic 65% drop in sales this year. The downturn led the company to lay off four of its 16 employees and to slash its travel budget from $450,000 to $75,000. With the help of its suppliers, Atlas cut the cost of its products in order to keep its struggling customers. "It's been the most difficult time in our history...
Most homeowners have got the message: you no longer have to wait for mortgage rates to drop 2 percentage points before refinancing. With tumbling interest rates and a proliferation of low-fee mortgage options, a mere half-point drop may provide enough savings to warrant the paperwork. Don't run to the phones just yet, though. The Internet is where you'll first want to run, to survey current rates and fees, and calculate monthly payments and savings...
...comes with Avid Cinema for Windows, software made by Avid Technology, a company renowned for the high-end video-editing stuff the pros use. It's exceptional, with a great tutorial that showed me how to make a movie in 10 minutes. An editing screen lets you drag and drop color-coded video, music and voice-over clips onto a storyboard, where you assemble them. Avid also provides dozens of dissolves and fadeaways for making the transitions between scenes, as well as a tool for creating scrolling credits and titles. The whole process, from installation to previewing my first minute...
...software business. The feds are concerned about a meeting in August 1995 (when Microsoft appears to have been on something of a rampage, given the alleged Netscape shakedown that came a month before). Gates met with Andy Grove at Intel?s campus, intent on persuading his opposite number to drop development of Native Signal Processing, a multimedia technology that would supersede and clash with the soon-to-be-launched Windows...