Word: graveyard
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...That the world needs an e-graveyard is no surprise. For every new technology born, an old one is laid to rest, and new technologies come along rapidly in the information age. But a report issued last week by the Basel Action Network (BAN), a Seattle-based NGO, sheds new light on where old computers go to die?and on the environmental consequences. E-waste, electronic gear containing hazardous material, is routinely sold and shipped from the industrialized world to developing countries in Asia for recycling. It's a messy business that "leaves the poorer peoples of the world with...
...face of it, the odds don't look good. In Japan, "restructuring" often means ordering just enough layoffs and cost cuts to qualify for another lifeline from the banks?themselves staggering under $1 trillion in bad debts. Meanwhile, the corporate graveyard is crowded with foreign investors who tried to make over Japanese failures. Most recently, Merrill Lynch, which bought out securities firm Yamaichi, is beating a retreat...
...face of it, the odds don't look good. In Japan "restructuring" often means ordering just enough layoffs and cost cuts to qualify for another lifeline from the banks--themselves staggering under $1 trillion in lousy debts. Meanwhile, the corporate graveyard is crowded with foreign investors who tried to make over Japanese failures. Most recently, Merrill Lynch, which bought out securities firm Yamaichi, is beating a retreat...
...confusion deepened Friday when an e-mail sent to news organizations, including CNN and Fox, claimed that Pearl had been executed and that his body could be found in an unspecified graveyard in Karachi. Someone else called the U.S. embassy in Islamabad demanding $2 million for Pearl's return. Attempts to trace the e-mails have so far proved inconclusive; the Wall Street Journal, for its part, said on Saturday that it believes Pearl may still be alive...
...conspires with her lover to murder her husband - were never very bright, especially so in a dark year like this one. But even in cheerier times, "Thou Shalt Not" would have needed strong critical support to survive, and the show now appears doomed. But before it departs for the graveyard of Broadway bombs, it deserves a little credit for all it tried and what it achieved...