Word: highflyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That said, from a purely business standpoint Fiorina was a logical choice to take over HP, coming off a remarkable run as president of the $20 billion Global Services division at Lucent. She was partly responsible for re-engineering Lucent into a technology highflyer from what was once Ma Bell's phonemaker. Lucent is now a leading global supplier of cell-phone networking gear and the digital-switching systems that are critical components of voice and data networks--you know, the Internet. She even helped design the red-swirl logo that marks Lucent as a leading-edge company...
China's most daring highflyer, Premier Zhu Rongji, has come very close. He likes the altitude--it energizes him--and over the past five years he has seemed to defy gravity as he pushed his country's economic reforms further and faster than anyone thought possible. To his many admirers at home and overseas, he was the enlightened mandarin who single-handedly could break through the red tape and propel China's economy into the next century. Even Asia's debilitating economic crisis didn't seem to faze Zhu. In March he laid out a program for China to make...
Bender's euphoria is understandable; not all start-ups enjoy the same prospects. The IPO game can be perilous for less well-prepared entrepreneurs and for the investors who snap up their shares. For every highflyer like Netscape Communications or Pixar Animation that has enriched its owners almost beyond counting, there are dozens of losers that have dashed their founders' dreams. Smith Micro Software, for example, jumped from $12 a share to $14.50 a share amid the frenzy of the IPO market when the Aliso Viejo, California, maker of software for modems went public last Sept. 18. Since then...
...experts still assert that Apple's prospects for survival are good. Its core business, truly excellent software that makes computers easy to use, has hooked some 20 million die-hard customers. "There are times when you look at Apple and you see the Wang of the future: the once highflyer that became irrelevant to what's going on," says Coursey. But, he adds, "yes, the Mac still works better. Yes, it has a better operating system. And yes, Apple is headed in a good direction...
...majestic bird has been an emblem of the country's careless and sometimes callous treatment of wildlife. Pinched by human population growth, poisoned by pollutants and slaughtered by hunters, the eagle went into such a decline that by 1940 Congress felt compelled to pass a law protecting the highflyer. It didn't work: in 1963 there were only 417 breeding pairs of bald eagles left in the lower 48 states, and by 1978, when the eagle was officially listed as endangered, there were only a few more than that. It seemed that Americans would soon have to travel to Alaska...