Word: partings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AMERICAN CENTURY PART II Andy Warhol's Elvis will be among the stars in the Whitney Museum's continuing survey. Opens Sept...
Until survivor Lance Armstrong triumphed in this summer's Tour de France bicycle race, testicular cancer didn't get a lot of press. One likely reason is that men hate to think about a malignancy in that vital and exceedingly sensitive part of the body. The treatment--surgical removal of the testicle--is even worse to contemplate. But another reason is that testicular cancer is relatively rare: only 7,400 cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. next year, representing 1% of new male cancers. Prostate cancer is 30 times as common...
...price--one that will be paid largely by the relatively anonymous groups of backroom sales-and-operations personnel who have kept the wheels of commerce humming. If you don't believe it, imagine trying to convince the legions of purchasing-order and sales executives--those who, as part of their current jobs, are wined, dined and bequeathed free tickets to every sporting event imaginable--that the Web is a better way to do business. Efficiency may not sound all that attractive to them. On the flip side, B2B companies are businesses like any other. Many will go under...
...your employees just go next door," Carthey says. By 1996, NetPro began offering stock options as a further benefit in order to keep up with its Silicon Valley peers. Employees buy shares in NetPro at a discount, before the company has gone public, and some hope to retire in part on the gains the business will see as it grows. Today even part-timers on the staff of 103 get options. "I want every single employee to be my co-partner," says Carthey. "This way they're invested in the future success of the company." The strategy seems to work...
Though sports-equipment companies are high profile, they have been erratic performers as businesses. They were often small parts of large outfits, and changed owners frequently. Prince, another company started by Howard Head, was sold to consumer products maker Chesebrough Pond's in the '80s. It is now owned by the Italian apparel company Benetton, which is building a sports division. Wilson, once owned by PepsiCo and then Wesray Capital, is now part of a Finnish conglomerate called Amer Group...