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While the oil surplus is expected to endure for several years, prices are likely to increase somewhat over the next few months. Whatever OPEC resolves to do, the main impetus for rising prices is likely to be heightened demand from a growing world economy and oil-guzzling consumers. Gasoline demand in the U.S. has returned to preconservation levels, topping 7 million bbl. a day during the first quarter of this year, the highest rate since...
...individual stockholder, the late Roy Disney's son, also named Roy, who owned 3% of the company. "I remember thinking that if that pattern went on much longer, the company would become a museum in honor of Walt," says Roy, now 58. "Movies were the fountainhead of ideas, the impetus for all the rest. Without Fantasia and Snow White, Disneyland couldn't have been built." Yet Disney's management rejected Roy's advice and privately disparaged him as Walt's "idiot nephew...
Still, the impetus behind second-wave technology is not its potential but what it can deliver now in financial returns and improved productivity. In April 1986, IBM brought on line its first expert system, called DEFT (for Diagnostic Expert-Final Test). Its task: to perform the mundane but critical job of diagnosing problems during the final testing of the giant disk drives that store information for IBM's mainframe computers. Since then the testing system has been adapted as a diagnostic tool for IBM service experts and to perform a variety of different tests on IBM equipment. IBM's initial...
...Usually the Greek grade point average is higher than the average grade point average," Benton says. "When you live in a house, you've got an impetus to work harder. You want to work harder so your house's average is higher. If you do badly, you feel like you let them down...
BUSINESS: A stock dive gives impetus to a call for sweeping market reforms...