Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primary instigators of the price war have been new small companies that function more as assembly lines than as manufacturers. Many of these firms, ; such as Zeos, Graystar and PC Brand, don't invest in costly research or development, nor do they own expensive manufacturing plants. Instead they operate out of factories and garages. Rather than make PCs from scratch, they buy everything from circuit boards, displays and disk drives to entire computers from foreign firms that largely copy American PC designs. Says Brad Smith, vice president of PC research at Dataquest: "All you need to start a PC company...
...offered to the general public. The revelation of Foley's sweet deals by Roll Call, a spry newspaper published twice a week that covers Capitol Hill, shed light on how some IPOs are doled out to a select few while ordinary folks are never given a chance to invest...
...David Halberstam, prizewinning journalist and best-selling social chronicler, simply calls the period transitional, a truism that could apply to any decade. Likewise, his thesis that events of the '50s set the stage for the '60s, '70s and beyond is as safe as it once was to invest...
...feels like so long as the United States of America provides world leadership with a space station," NASA administrator Daniel Goldin told a House committee. For the past decade, NASA has touted the space station as the necessary next step in the conquest of space, but the propensity to invest in hardware and grand engineering projects rather than ideas, as if NASA's only constituency were the aerospace industry, has retarded rather than advanced the agency's true mission of exploring the universe. Such genuine marvels as the Hubble Space Telescope (which has returned spectacular results despite a slightly misshapen...
...left with more questions than answers about its future responsibilities. Should it try to disarm all the warlords? Should it prosecute them? Should it conduct national elections? Should it intervene in case of attack? Most important, is Somalia vital enough to any U.N. member state to invest the money, lives and years required to reconstruct the country...