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Then Bollinger decided to leap into the information age. It paid $3 million to Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., for a suite of e-business software that promised to impose order on almost all its operations, including inventory, purchasing, project accounting and payroll. Most companies that buy an office suite start slowly, first installing the financial piece and then gradually adding new software. But Bollinger took what it calls the "big-bang" approach. It had nine shipyards working on old-fashioned systems on a Thursday and had them switched over in every area by the following Tuesday...
...battle they had fought for years. The two weeks of debate that ended Friday surprised many veterans of the Senate's joyless forced marches. The debate was both civil and principled; people listened, and some even changed their mind, persuaded by new arguments and old loyalties to make a leap of faith. No one knew as the week went on how it would turn out; every day brought another threat to the bill's survival, and the best head counters in the chamber were stumped about who would act as saboteur, who would turn out to be a savior...
...Nation builder, visionary, Uber-industrialist, human bulldozer: Hyundai founder CHUNG JU YUNG wore all these hats and more. When the son of a peasant from a North Korean village died last week at the age of 85, South Korea lost one of its 20th-century giants. If Korea's leap from war-battered basket case to industrial powerhouse was miraculous, Chung was chief miracle maker. He started out selling rice as a runaway teenager, set up his own construction company, then piled into everything from supertankers to microchips. His energy and drive were Olympian, his chutzpah legendary: he once sold...
...battle they had fought for years. The two weeks of debate that ended Friday surprised many veterans of the Senate's joyless forced marches. The debate was both civil and principled; people listened, and some even changed their mind, persuaded by new arguments and old loyalties to make a leap of faith. No one knew as the week went on how it would turn out; every day brought another threat to the bill's survival, and the best head counters in the chamber were stumped about who would act as saboteur, who would turn out to be a savior...
KANGAROOS With disease afoot, marsupial-meat sales leap 20%. Tastes like chicken--with a kick