Word: experts
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...practical and personal reasons for getting online. After his wife died four years ago, he found himself "rattling around in this big house alone." He says, "She was always the one who took care of the books, and I said, 'What should I do?'" The retired regulatory expert decided to learn to manage his money on the computer. Then he got the idea of trading stocks online. "I'm kind of a do-it-myselfer," says Schwebke, 60. While he leaves his ira in the hands of brokers, he took some of the money he inherited when his father died...
...touring sedan with a V-10 engine. It's a dream for Chrysler--too expensive for the company to produce alone. Daimler's deeper pockets, though, could support such a program. "Daimler has been lacking the potential for growth, but it has the cash flow," says Andre Igler, industry expert and editor of Vienna's business daily Wirtschaftsblatt. "Chrysler has the potential for growth but no real cash flow...
Apple's style-conscious designers spent weeks refining everything from the color (they call it Bondi blue, after an Australian beach) to the size of the translucent baffles on the front (they wanted to give it the illusion of depth but not be too transparent). They even consulted an expert in candy making to learn how to reliably reproduce its tricky color on production lines. If the final result strikes some users as looking more like a beach toy than a computer, that's just fine with design chief Jonathan Ive. "Steve said, 'Don't make it look like...
Harvard's prestige does mean that many in Washington accord its faculty and administrators the respect of expert witnesses on higher education and other subjects. It often even opens doors for Harvard lobbyists--seen by many as among the best in the business...
...Princess Diana had an abortion during an affair with a married London art dealer, according to a new book, "The Real Diana," released Tuesday. In the book, author Lady Colin Campbell says the Princess of Wales became pregnant in 1994 by Oliver Hoare, an art dealer and Middle Eastern expert. Campbell cites one unidentified source: an earl's daughter who was a friend of Diana's. Quoting the friend, Campbell writes that Diana "freaked right out" when she learned she was pregnant by Hoare. "She wanted the baby. 'Suppose it's a girl,' she said, distraught at what she knew...