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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bureaucrats: a cross-country cyclist becomes a consultant who eases traffic jams; a former civil rights activist flies to Mississippi each week to teach math in a way that lets students actually learn it. At the same time, modern activists must find ways to cut through the info glut and hold the attention of a public grown wary of ideologues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebels With a Cause | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...bureaucrats: a cross-country cyclist becomes a consultant who eases traffic jams; a former civil rights activist flies to Mississippi each week to teach math in a way that lets students actually learn it. At the same time, modern activists must find ways to cut through the info glut and hold the attention of a public grown wary of ideologues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Community Activism: New Agents Of Change | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

Faced with rising health-care costs and a global glut of their product, America's steelmakers are demanding more protection from imports. A bill before Congress would impose import quotas that might save 3,700 steelmaking jobs in the U.S. But higher costs for U.S. industries that use steel, such as autos and construction, would result in the loss of 19,000 to 32,000 jobs, according to a new study sponsored by the Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition. Andrew Sharkey, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, calls the study "flawed" and "based on a political agenda that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Jun. 11, 2001 | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Software is my favorite sector. It's probably the least impacted by the telecom glut of overcapacity. But within the semiconductor space we have a number of investments, and one of our favorites is the world's largest semiconductor-packaging company, Amkor Technology. Their fundamentals right now are absolutely miserable, and they are losing money, but the stock has stopped going down in spite of the bad news. It is far and away the technology leader in semiconductor packaging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Net Net: They're Buying Tech Should You? | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...million annualized--show an industry that, thankfully, doesn't know when to quit; odd, since housing often leads the downhill charge into recession. Construction giants such as Centex and KB Home continue to expand, thanks to consolidation, low mortgage rates and productivity gains. An order backlog means no housing glut this round: spec building has been a no-no since the S&L blowout, and many towns, already sprawling, are now persnickety about development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Apr. 9, 2001 | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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