Word: grows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...privacy. Users are bristling about the use of a technology called "cookies" that tracks surfing habits to create a demographic profile prized by advertisers. Recent FTC online privacy hearings have put the fear of Big Government into industry leaders. "Despite their rivalry, Microsoft and Netscape share the desire to grow the market," says TIME's David Jackson, "and it makes sense for them to join together to assuage people's concerns early on. If they don't, people just aren't going to use some of these technologies." A new software the two companies will jointly produce should allow users...
...crowded out there. Operators of quick-service restaurants (QSRS, in the industry lingo) have been expanding the number of taco stands, pizza parlors and burger joints 6% to 7% annually. Compare that with the increase in available mouths, 1% annually, and the equation becomes clearer: the only way to grow business is to bite off a piece of the other guy's sales...
...State study found that the stocks of 161 spin-off companies between 1965 and 1990, on average, rose 76%, vs. a market average of only 43%, over three years. Why? Often spin-off companies become more focused, and because they are smaller they tend to have greater ability to grow rapidly. Meanwhile, there is little evidence that giant mergers create great wealth for shareholders. Just ask AT&T. It paid $7.4 billion for NCR Computer in 1991 and soon gave up on the acquisition, spinning it off to shareholders as part of another split, this one three ways, last year...
According to Vice President for Finance Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper, the rationale has been that financial markets should not dictate year-to-year income because of their instability. During good times the University has tried to grow the endowment by not taking full advantage of the market's upswings...
...that her time is up and the battle for women's golf at Harvard has been won, Boyle can finally leave knowing that her program has nothing left to do but grow...