Word: factor
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...Godzilla was one of the last concepts of the '50s that had never been done in modern form--that idea of the giant monster as in Tarantula or The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. Why not do them again?" But, he says, "we were really concerned about the cheese factor...
Personal security is a factor in this new, wide-open world. A growing number of companies are taking extra steps to ensure their employees' safety as they log those mega-miles. Don Hubbard, national director of security for Coopers & Lybrand, saw the need to bolster the company's international travel-security policy after an executive was trapped in a Mexico City restaurant by three gunmen, robbed and released. Hubbard contracted the services of an international advisory service, accessible to all 19,000 of the firm's employees through the Internet. Hubbard can also send out "all-hands e-mails," with...
...here, people realize they have to go and get a feel for the markets they are in. The way we do business might change, but there is no replacement for physically experiencing a country." Most important, Kaplan adds, is building relationships. "If you're going to have a comfort factor with anybody in any country in the world, you need to build up a face-to-face trust." If he is right, business travel is going to be more arduous and demanding for a long time to come...
Although religious discrimination was notinitially a factor in her decision to go intosurgery, Laura says since coming to Harvard shehas come to agree with her father. "I look aroundHarvard, and there are no people who look like Idid," she says. "In my community there were somany people that did, that [the difference of myappearance] didn't occur...
...entirely self-effacing whimsy. Like every good researcher--and every responsible science journalist--he knows all too well that most drugs that work in lab animals turn out to be duds in humans. The field is littered with "magic bullets" that failed, among them monoclonal antibodies, tumor necrosis factor, interferon and interleukin-2. While all were initially hyped as potential cure-alls, they have turned out to have only modest usefulness in the war on cancer. At best, says Dr. Allen Oliff, Merck & Co.'s chief of cancer research, no more than 10% or 20% of agents tried in mice...