Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protect themselves against employees who walk out for the next best offer, corporations have taken a harder line against talent raids, essentially equating them to espionage. That seems to be the case with Wal-Mart's trade-secret suit against Amazon.com The nation's largest retailer contends that the Web's leading e-tailer lured 15 of its top techies out to Seattle from Wal-Mart's hometown of Bentonville, Ark., for the express purpose of duplicating its prized information database--a vast system that tracks customer shopping patterns and product flow. "There's a lot of computer talent...
Satellite and other types of high-speed wireless technologies would seem to offer hope for spanning great distances and reaching the thinly wired. Indeed, the cost of downloading Web pages via a rooftop satellite dish is falling. Hughes' DirecPC dish now sells for as little as $299, with monthly service starting at about $30. But this one-way technology won't serve the needs of many businesses and professionals like graphics designer Middleton...
...line (and Lusk a starring role in Microsoft's ads on TV). Town leaders see it as a matter of survival. "We want our kids to come back here," says Twila Barnette, who manages the county Chamber of Commerce. "But we have to be able to offer them opportunities using this new technology...
...companions. At once sardonic and curiously boyish, he was both autodidact and polymath--his curiosity and his information equally boundless. To a film critic he might recommend some recondite movie that he had caught but that the latter had carelessly missed. To a filmmaker desperately behind schedule, he might offer to share his state-of-the-art editing suite to speed things up. To a harried studio executive, he might provide an evening of baseball nostalgia, centered on the New York Yankees, beloved since Kubrick's Bronx boyhood. Maybe Warren Beatty caught the delicious dynamic of those encounters best when...
Both authors offer elegantly literary tales of disintegration and the irretrievable alienation of affection, putting their relationships under the equivalent of a fluorescent bulb that makes every detail off-color, a little bit dirty--but very, very visible, for better and for worse...