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...American government rescind this wrongful decision." Speculation about reprisals was the buzz of both capitals. Possible countermeasures discussed range from China's cancellation of Boeing jetliner purchases to the still unlikely option of closing the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, capital of the hinterland province Sichuan and a doorway to restless Tibet...
None of which gives anyone at the Microsoft "campus" in Redmond, Washington, an excuse to relax. One of the most remarkable traits of Microsoft's corporate personality -- inherited directly from its restless chairman -- is its inability to sit still. What other companies see as wind at their back, Microsoft sees as turbulence from competitors catching up. "A revenue-generating franchise is the most fragile thing in the world," says Myhrvold, who, like Gates, is something of a professional worrier. "No matter how good your product, you are only 18 months away from failure...
...referring to a detached and wandering period in his young manhood, "years of being lost" on the American back roads, unable to define what he was looking for. Those years, those feelings are long gone, but other aspects of that young guy still cling to him; he remains restless, self-sufficient, with a large tolerance for his own company and an equally large indifference toward the good opinion of strangers. "I've always had the theory," he once said, "that actors who beg their audiences to like them ... are much worse off than actors who just...
...Banks, director of on-air promotion for cbs Daytime. "We thought the viewers would come back, but they didn't." Since the beginning of this year, when cnn and court tv began broadcasting the Simpson trial daily, the three top-rated soap operas -- CBS's The Young and the Restless and ABC's All My Children and General Hospital -- have each lost more than 10% of their viewership...
That is also the philosophy espoused by Bill and Lee Phillip Bell, creators of television's top-rated soap, The Young and the Restless, and The Bold and the Beautiful, the only successful new daytime drama to be introduced in the past decade. "We have characters who are role models and families that work to stay together," proclaims Bradley Bell, their son and the head writer for The Bold and the Beautiful. "Our strength is investing in character-staying with interpersonal relationships." Interpersonal relationships, so far at least, that don't involve Lucifer...