Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grove calls, somewhat inelegantly, "strategic inflection points," those moments when new circumstances alter the way the world works, as if the current of history goes through a transistor and our oscilloscopes blip. It can happen because of an invention (Gutenberg's printing press in the 15th century), or an idea (individual liberty in the 18th century), or a technology (electricity in the 19th century) or a process (the assembly line early in this century...
...interest rates: a quarter-point increase last March. But standing pat in this case is a positive accomplishment. Greenspan has resisted pressure from nervous Nellies inside and outside the Fed to slam a monetary brake on the economy. The nation's foremost inflation hawk now seems to accept the idea that unlike in the past, deep changes in the economy have made sustained growth possible without pushing prices...
America's problem is not inhibition. It is exhibition. What the President and the polity and the pedagogues should be preaching is racial decency. Respect. Restraint. Manners. The lesson ought to be: Whatever your innermost feelings--and we have no idea, despite the claims of pop psychology, how to change inner feelings--we demand certain behavior. That is what the civil rights laws are about. They do not mandate a pure society. They mandate right conduct amid impurity...
...Democrat TED KENNEDY's a big fan too, listing a cut as a top priority for next year. In a private make-nice meeting last week with House Democratic minority leader DICK GEPHARDT, White House chief of staff ERSKINE BOWLES said the Administration wants to champion its own idea. That support is likely to help overcome the claim that payroll-tax meddling imperils the Social Security system it funds. Now it's a race to see who gets the credit. As Lott told TIME, "You want to do something that would affect the blue-collar American? Buddy, this...
...room, Dell has made a habit of spotting trends when they are still mere suggestions. Maybe that's why his company's stock has jumped 20,000% since 1990. Four years ago, when the Web was just a strand, Dell made his first online purchase (a T shirt). The idea of selling computers online...