Word: reorients
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...into silicon chips--Capps thrives on the multi-iterated quest for perfection. "There's nothing better than doing version 2," he says, "and being able to go back and fix all your mistakes." No, what finally drove Capps out the door was Apple's inability to stay relevant, to reorient itself around the Net. "If Bill Gates could say, 'I was wrong about the Web,' so can you," he told Apple's leaders, urging the company to scrap Copland, its overdue operating system, partner with a Net-savvy computer maker like Sun Microsystems, and "make Apple the Net cruiser...
This morning he planned to bring the uncertainty to an end. Microsoft would reorient every effort, every project and product to the new reality of the Internet. He was about to send a company with $6 billion in sales and 19,641 workers--all $70 billion worth--hurtling in that direction. In the future, as in the past, nothing was going to stand in Bill Gates...
...this has happened at a time when the Cold War's end held so much promise for America, mainly in the opportunity to reorient our national priorities. Overseas, Bush spent billions and took thousands of lives to push back a dictator the administration built up--and then left him entrenched in power. And his directionless non-policy for the break-up of communist Europe has resulted in no leadership to help stop the killing in Sarajevo...
...Starr says that he hopes to reorient himself to academics--but to leave some room for dabbling...
...think both things will happen. You should bear in mind that we have quite a few factories in the Soviet Union that are simply inefficient. They're going to have to reorient their production. People will have to be retrained. Many will have to find new occupations. That's why we are establishing a system of social protection that will enable these people to make the transition. In America and other developed Western countries, most people are employed in the services sector, while two-thirds of our people are in the production sector. We've got a lot of work...