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...demographers say there still will not be enough qualified members of the next generation to pick up the slack. So with 76 million baby boomers heading toward retirement over the next three decades and only 46 million Gen Xers waiting in the wings, corporate America is facing a potentially mammoth talent crunch. Certainly, labor-saving technology and immigration may help fill the breach. Still, by 2010 there may be a shortage of 4 million to 6 million workers...
That's what happens when the Wizard of Oz gives interviews. But Lucas' first Star Wars film in 16 years was the victim of its own mammoth hype, stoked by a quillion cover stories, including TIME's, before anyone had seen the completed work--and by the worldwide audience's communal memory of Star Wars (1977) and its sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). If the Odyssey had enjoyed--or suffered--as much anticipatory fluffing as Phantom Menace did, some ancient Greeks would surely have muttered, "Homer's lost it." And the poet would...
...Achilles heal is its offense. As a team, Harvard is batting a paltry .250, and the Crimson has only two players with batting averages above .300. Outfielder Trey Hendricks (.340, 3 HR, 15 RBI) has led the way for the Crimson leading the team with his mammoth .530 slugging percentage. Outside of Hendricks, most Crimson hitters are batting around .250, with the biggest disapointment being third baseman Nick Carter, who is batting just .214 with no homeruns...
McClelland also has no insecurities about taking on such a mammoth assignment for his first foray into musical theater. “I just don’t get scared by it. I just focus on my job,” he said
...landscape in their homelands by being brutally efficient, selling a mind-boggling range of products?from groceries to pharmaceuticals to clothes to big-screen TVs?at cut-rate prices. U.S.-based Costco operates spartan warehouses where bulk goods are stacked on pallets and sold to the public wholesale. The mammoth Wal-Mart chain?annual revenues of $218 billion made it the largest company on this year's FORTUNE 500 list?emphasizes customer service to bring in the crowds while keeping prices in check with high-tech inventory management?and by using its clout to cow suppliers. Charles Holley, senior vice...