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...ultimate revenge of the nerd. Outplotting, outprogramming and above all outthinking his competitors, he rose to the top of an industry that is driven by shifting alliances, rapid technological changes and the steady drumbeat of Moore's law (after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who observed that the power of silicon chips doubles every 18 months). Nobody navigates these turbulent complexities better than Gates, who understands as few do that the great lever of wealth and power in the digital age is not hardware or even software but control over the standards to which others must adhere. Today...
Redstone said merger activity in the U.S. has increased at a rapid pace in the early 1980s, with favorable regulations approved by the Reagan administration. Mergers this year affected $347 billion of American business...
Jayne also noted that Dr. Charles A. Czeisler '74, director of the lab, has found that shift workers suffer more from rapid rotations, as opposed to fixed shifts or shifts that rotate every few weeks. Jayne jokes, however, that in the interest of science "[Czeisler] doesn't practice what he preaches. For easier adjusting, the schedule always rotates up--for example, the shifts could run day, day, evening evening, night, followed by one of two days...
...Limited (fashionable casual wear), both of which have opened in the past five years, are going after a new generation of customers who want cheap prices and have yuppie pretensions. That's partly why niche retailers like Crate & Barrel, which specializes in affordable housewares, expect to continue their rapid growth. Gordon Segal, the founder of Crate & Barrel, predicts an 8% sales gain this Christmas for his stores...
...last night's Eliot House Senior Common Room talk, Barrie Dunsmore emphasized the potential conflict between rapid televised reports and military security...