Word: launching
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Masanori Fujimori, a former IBM software engineer, thinks the metaphor is apt. He left IBM two years ago to launch a firm that produces software for multimedia. Cruising the Internet has been good for his business, with newfound friends in the field passing along specialized software tools and lining up profitable interviews for him with U.S. entertainment-industry figures. Now, in a small, smoke-filled room in Kawasaki, Fujimori is at his keyboard nearly around the clock. ``By meeting other people on the Internet,'' he says, ``you find out who you really are.'' For Japan's multimedia industry, that search...
...offered a solution for the liberal malaise. "We should work at ideological renewal, rethinking every aspect of the doctrines of the left, and launch a spirited defense of people in trouble...
Thiessen, a resident of Hurlbutt Hall, will launch his experiments with protein crystals on the Space Shuttle Endeavor flight STS-67, scheduled for liftoff on March...
...Banco Latino and an old friend of Perez's. The President made the extraordinary move of naming him head of the central bank, even as Tinoco remained Banco Latino's largest shareholder. Soon millions of dollars in government funds were deposited in Banco Latino, which used them to help launch a major expansion. By 1993, the year in which Tinoco died of cancer, Banco Latino had blossomed from the country's eighth largest bank into its second largest...
Surprising no one, Senator Phil Gramm formally entered the 1996 presidential race, promising to carry the conservative banner and press for less government and lower taxes. Gramm launched his campaign for the GOP nomination on the campus of Texas A&M University, where he once taught economics. "In the lives of families and businesses and even the lives of great nations," Gramm said, "there are critical moments when you must either face up to your problems or be overwhelmed by them. Now is such a moment for America.'' While Gramm is the only candidate of either party to formally declare...