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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In any case, the plans cannot be judged purely on economic grounds. They embed highly controversial political and social judgments. Just how much government do the people want, and what do they think it should do? Are the pending surpluses a heaven-sent opportunity to spend more on high priorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Budget: Rolling In Dough | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Tart-tongued South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, one of Domenici's predecessors as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, decried all talk of surpluses as "a circus act if I've ever seen one." Said he: "Instead of the deficit and debt going down, they're going up." His point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Budget: Rolling In Dough | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Like many new high-tech firms, both were growing fast--but not fast enough to keep up with the demands of their customers. Personify, founded in San Francisco in 1996, builds software that lets an e-marketer keep track of visitors to its website, what pages they look at, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Little Companies Bulk Up | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

John Groves, 36, exemplifies both trends. He founded Open Microsystems, an Austin, Texas, electronic-software-and-services company, in 1991. Seven years later, he had built it into a $5 million business. But, he says, "we had to raise a lot more money or settle into a growth rate that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Little Companies Bulk Up | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

To many other small-business owners, talk about building a new Oracle, pro or con, sounds roughly as relevant as chatter about a space cruise to Pluto. They consider mergers and acquisitions the only way not just to grow but sometimes even to stay afloat.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Little Companies Bulk Up | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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