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...than good by her personal intervention in the case," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "Negotiation 101 teaches that even if you don't intend to use force, you have to make your adversary believe that you will if he remains recalcitrant. It also teaches that the top decision maker never negotiates directly, because that removes the space for a negotiator to say 'I see your point but my boss won?t buy it.' By meeting with Lazaro Gonzalez to plead with him to turn over the boy, having announced in advance that she'd ruled out sending in marshals...
Microsoft also used Windows to punish companies that crossed the software maker. When IBM insisted on developing products that Microsoft saw as a threat, Microsoft withheld technical support and raised the price it charged IBM for Windows. And Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to help its applications division--the programmers who write software like Microsoft Word--by giving them preferred access to the complex Windows source code. Non-Microsoft programmers have long asked for equal access to the source code--but Microsoft has steadfastly refused to give...
...game company, he made it on his home computer with a $300 software package called Animation:Master by a little company called Hash Inc. Alien Song has been so popular that Navone gets hundreds of e-mails and many job offers. He now works as an animator at Pixar, maker of Toy Story. KEN BAER Portland...
...specific case of the glue on the label, Ping's team sought their sellers online with the help of a dot-com "market maker" whose web page trumpets its expertise in "business-to-business online auctions for buyers of industrial parts, raw materials, commodities and services." For every different adhesive needed to attach label to bottle, Ping said, "they had at least four of five [online] bidders," each a national supplier. The winning bid represented a savings of 20 percent...
...stroke of the dream-maker's genius that the attorney general in this religious passion play is the same Public Official whose minions once burned down a compound of believers in Texas, incinerating a number of the faithful. So the attorney general, her eyes behind bottle-bottom glasses looking like enormous, startled fish in an aquarium, proceeds with the anguished metaphysical doubt of one who has seen the Fire. What is the Law of mere Caesar in the face of Faith and Passion...