Word: groves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprising smell emanates from Only the Paranoid Survive (Currency Doubleday; 202 pages; $27.50), a literate new business-technology book from Intel CEO Andy Grove. The first wave comes as he describes how the microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma...
Good fortune, of course, hasn't been the only thing that helped Grove build Intel into one of America's most profitable corporations (while pocketing a few hundred million of his own in the process), but the inescapable--albeit unstated--message of this book is that Grove's tremendous success owes a substantial debt to fate. In a high-tech economy where sudden change is the norm, the book reminds us that it takes more than a good head for business to survive...
...years is that green sentiment is again a powerful political force. That's why Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated timber cutting in the Tongass National Forest. In California the Clinton Administration reached an agreement that would protect Headwaters, a privately owned grove of ancient redwoods that has been the focus of protests for years. And in Maine voters moved closer to imposing controls on clear-cutting in a state where timber interests own almost half the land...
...Hurwitz would not sit with them. A marathon bargaining session produced a highly complicated agreement that promised to turn over $380 million in cash and land (value and location subject to haggling) to Pacific Lumber. If Hurwitz is satisfied, he passes title to Headwaters, the 425-acre Elk Head grove and a logged-over moonscape between, totaling 7,500 acres. If not, PL's fallers start their chainsaws...
...computers or the Internet? The minor applications in business and research are valuable, but otherwise computers look to me like nothing more than expensive toys--Barbie dolls for spoiled and bored grownups--and the Internet browser programs look suspiciously like this year's dresses for Barbie. MARTY MELTZER Morton Grove, Illinois...