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...other hitters in the off season and has tuned in fully to the advice of Cub coaches. "I always thought this guy could really put up some gigantic numbers if we could get him to swing at better pitches and get him to be more patient," said batting coach Jeff Pentland. Sosa agrees: "I don't want to go to the home plate with the idea that I need to hit a home run. I just want to relax and use all the field. When I do that, I know I can hit a home run at any moment...
...fall. Western Governors University, a completely virtual college based in both Salt Lake City, Utah, and Denver, will be offering its first courses. Started by Governors from 18 Western states and encompassing the state universities in those areas, W.G.U. will initially offer continuing-education courses and associate degrees, says Jeff Edwards, marketing director for the school. There will be a con- centration on information technology courses, although at press time the catalog was still under development. Courses will be offered via the Web and satellite TV. Students from all over the world will be able to enroll in programs, which...
...businesses illustrate this sort of generational corporate conflict better than the book-selling industry. If you want a snapshot of the e-economy, 1998, you could do worse than Jeff Bezos, the founder of bookseller Amazon.com One day last week, as his stock price rose and fell with typical volatility, he stalked through his shuttered Seattle office, on a phone call, staring at his wristwatch, pacing, talking, thinking, plotting, scheming, then glancing at the watch again. Like the Net Economy, Bezos is all about motion...
...hefty punch. That guarantees that any rise in the demand for a stock will have a sharp impact on its price. For example, much of the volatility of Amazon.com comes from the fact that less than half of the company's 49 million shares are actively traded. Founder Jeff Bezos controls 41%, and an additional 12% is in the hands of the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers...
...Moines has both urban and rural within minutes of each other, says Jeff Bradford, chairman of the marketing department at Drake University in Des Moines, and that's attractive to companies that want products tested. With its housing and development boom, Des Moines "captures the growth and the shift in the economy that's taking place across the entire country," Bradford says...