Word: mass
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...Baghdad in August. I emerged from the underground rail system to bright sunlight and the spirited sights and sounds of a produce market, where vegetables every color and shape were being hawked in numerous languages. The dome above city hall, black and studded with gold lines over a classical mass of stone, blinked its brilliance in the sunshine, and the street was lined with flags arranged as a monument to the accomplishments of the United Nations. As I bought a freshly baked scone and handed the merchant the bills, he happily jabbered away on his cellular phone, and I took...
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...
...Fidelity Investments in Marlborough, Mass., it's a record year for sales of retirement products to small businesses. In 1998 Fidelity sold just over 1,000 plans to companies with 100 or fewer employees; this year it is on pace to sell twice that many. "It's no secret to most Americans that neither the government nor the company you work for is going to be there for you in retirement," says Peter Smail, president of Fidelity's Institutional Retirement Services Co. This fall Fidelity will begin offering a cyber version of the traditional 401(k), known as the e401...
...last Harvard Law School commencement, the SYC initiated a protest against Attorney General Janet Reno, fresh from the government mass murder of 86 men, women and children in Waco, Texas...
...Wisconsin refuses to follow the new procedures. Officials from the state, whose donor programs are rated among the best, are worried that there will be "a mass exodus" of donated organs out of the state, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. To make matters more heated, a local hero, former Chicago Bears running back WALTER PAYTON, is waiting for a liver at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. Potentially, he would be helped by the new rules...