Word: lief
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Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., a leading Internet analyst, agrees. Its report, Resizing Online Business Trade, predicts that B2B e-commerce will hit a total of $1.3 trillion by 2003, accounting for 9.4% of total U.S. business sales. Varda Lief (see the box, following), a senior analyst at Forrester specializing in e-commerce, says business-to-business transactions will far surpass business-to- consumer deals and dwarf giants like eBay and Amazon.com in revenue and sales. "Business-to-business is the stuff that makes everything run," says Lief...
Guest pianist Lief Ove Andsnes, however, captured much of the sincere passion of the piece with a dramatic enthusiasm that enraptured the audience. Born in Norway in 1970 and entering the Bergen Music Conservatory in 1986, Andsnes has gone on to perform with some of the most renowned orchestras and in some of the most prestigious music festivals in the world. Watching the music fluidly spill out of his hands, notes tumbling around the stage like small explosions of glitter, it becomes easy to understand how his success has reached the point that it has. The sprightly romance of Schumann...
Like many others at the news briefing at the Walter E. Fernald State School, White-Lief, a member of the task force which prepared the report, argued that the tests violated the human rights of the retarded children on which they were conducted. And White-Lief, chair of Fernald's human rights committee...
...White-Lief, noticeably breaking ranks withother task force members, said Harvard and MITmust pay for the radiation tests that theirresearchers performed...
...effort by Harvard to avoid compensationis likely to raise at least the ire of White-Lief...