Word: paces
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...Dell's direct-shipment model proved especially good for selling to businesses, which generate 80% of its sales. But the business market is becoming more commoditized, and prices are in a free fall. So everyday shoppers are powering the industry's growth. The consumer market grew at twice the pace of the enterprise market last year, according to technology-research firm IDC. Result: Dell's stock has plummeted 52% in the past year. The company's sales grew a lackluster (for Dell) 14%, to $56 billion, in fiscal year 2006. Last Friday, Dell stunned Wall Street by warning that...
...dealt with a devastating one-day drop from first place to 11th (because of a loss of energy, known as a "bonk") by having a beer. It must have been a stout, because Landis, who suffers from a degenerative hip condition, returned the next day to set a blistering pace through the Alps, gaining third place and ultimately the yellow jersey that signifies first place in the world's most grueling sports event. "He went from the penthouse to the outhouse to the moon," said his coach, Robbie Ventura. The new superstar will celebrate with hip-replacement surgery...
...desperately needed karmic injection. Bolten has pleased the President by giving him straight talk instead of cheerleading and has imposed a new accountability on the staff. Snow - with his bankerly suits, full tank of confidence and dash of celebrity - went on the breakfast shows last week to defend the pace and results of Bush's diplomacy, scoffing at the impatience of those who demanded "egg-timer diplomacy...
...download a cue from his body to see if it was dehydration, if it was heat exhaustion, if it was lack of calories," says Ventura. "The combination of all these things just zapped him completely." Landis' Phonak teammates, or domestiques, deserve part of the blame. They couldn't keep pace to hand him food and water - essential domestique gruntwork. On the steep climbs, you don't want to wait for the team car for food and drink, because you'll have to use even more energy to retreat and return to the front of the peleton. Plus, it's hard...
...course, Madonna has to pace herself. She's holding up pretty well, but those beefy backup dancers are doing most of the work. Also - and maybe this is only a surprise to someone who doesn't go to rock concerts that often - the show is about theater as much as music. And attitude. I was happy to see, at least, that the attitude was less off-putting than the last time I saw Madonna (in her concert tour before last, I think), when she basically walked out and said, 'F--- you, New York!" Now she's doing video montages...