Word: productive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nobody foresees a continuation of the phenomenal 1998 rise in gross domestic product--a sizzling 6% annual rate in the fourth quarter, 3.9% for the year. But Cohen, true to her reputation as Wall Street's leading optimist, thinks the U.S. is in a "virtuous cycle" that will keep spinning, if a bit more slowly. The U.S., she notes, has created a stunning 15.5 million jobs since the end of 1993, even after subtracting job losses due to corporate downsizing. And two-thirds of these jobs pay more than the median wage for all U.S. jobs. By no coincidence, average...
...night. Internet television is an unproved--and, for the moment, virtually unwatched--medium, yet the Netfiend crew is resolutely sure it is on the verge of something very big. So confident are Skat and Pseudo.com's 70 other employees of the vast potential of their still undefined and unsellable product that they are willing to be underpaid for 70-hour workweeks in a poorly ventilated former garment factory...
...caught up in a busy site's evolving commentary. Tan is trying to sell Third Voice to established sites as a way to build traffic, and this summer the company plans to launch a "discussion search engine" to help users navigate the new communities Third Voice hopes its product will spawn. "The Web promises open expression, but that ability has been limited to those with a printing press," says Tan. "We don't want any single party to control what does or doesn...
...provided by OM headquarters and sets out to solve it in an imaginative way. The problems are quirky, to say the least. One of them requires a team to put on a skit about a sales transaction that includes several elements: a "memorable customer, a demonstration of an original product that reflects some aspect of the culture in which the performance takes place, and the resolution of a problem involving the business." The kids must also present a "technical element"--a mechanical device of some sort...
...that's fine. Says Shawn Ford, 39, a foreign-language teacher who coaches two teams in Wisconsin's Kaukauna school district: "It's sometimes frustrating, but it's also fun to watch the kids come up with amazingly creative ideas." And thanks to the rules, credit for the final product--and for meeting the challenges of getting half a dozen or so individuals to organize themselves into a smoothly running team--goes directly to the OMers. "It really feels good," says John, "to know we did it ourselves...