Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Keep in mind that, outlandish as it sounds, this scheme comes from a man who made his career betting against the short-term odds. No one is longing for environmentally correct transportation. But there has never been as much global political pressure to produce nonpolluting vehicles. In Asia and Europe, where noisy, gas-powered scooters are fast being outlawed, electric bicycle markets are exploding. Analysts like retired GM engineer Frank Jamerson expect even the minuscule U.S. market, led by enviroconscious California, to double this year, as it did in 1998, to a total of 30,000 bikes sold. "How deep...
Microsoft's most intriguing argument is that the industry model it dominates--PCs that run on their own operating-system software--is in peril. "When you think of competition, you have to get out of the mind-set that this is a PC-centered world," says Neukom. In the near future, Microsoft argues, computers may run on free, open-source software, or may use the Internet as a platform for running applications like word processing and e-mail, making Windows obsolete. In Microsoft's view, its dominant market position is just one paradigm shift away from being undone...
...something that's difficult to police in the U.S. and almost impossible in the developing world. Now, however, Monsanto hopes to enforce biologically what it can't enforce contractually. With the help of clever genes currently in development, future Monsanto crops may be designed with a new feature in mind: sterility. No sooner will the company's plants mature than the seeds they carry will lose the ability to reproduce...
...keep in mind that your most valuable asset--your career--also is linked to the health of your company and industry. While you should invest enough in your 401(k) to receive any match that your employer offers, it's generally a mistake to voluntarily buy more of your employer's stock--no matter how bright you consider its prospects. Rough times can hit a company or an entire industry without warning. A portfolio diversified among five or more industries, including some that are sensitive to the ups and downs of the economy (airlines, builders, equipment makers) and some that...
...town of Emporia, a Republican stronghold where people generally agree that it would be better if Clinton disappeared, has supported the principal's decision to resign: reaching out to him in this painful moment but not trying to change his mind. "It's been a tough week," says Kathy Dreirer, whose daughters attend the principal's school. "The big thing at our house is lying," Dreirer says. "The kids ask, 'Why can the President get away with it, and we cannot?' I can't explain it. So I have to tell them, 'Because we're not his parents...