Word: runaways
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...every irresistible force, there's an immovable object. Dell may be about to bump up against his: Beijing-based Legend Computer. Legend is the runaway PC leader in China, a country that represents one of the planet's last great I.T. sales opportunities. Despite relatively low penetration rates, China's $10 billion computer market is already the third largest in the world; within a few years it is expected to move past Japan and become second only to the U.S. For computer companies, success on the mainland is becoming increasingly crucial as markets in developed countries reach saturation. Last year...
Person of the Week RUNAWAY VICTORY The official results said he got more votes, but Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's win in the nation's contentious election is far from settled. The opposition is screaming electoral fraud and Western governments are giving his regime the cold shoulder?but does Mugabe care...
...before inflation) to $18.3 billion today. Although Harvard is certainly not alone in tuition hikes far outpacing inflation—many top private Universities have similar tuition histories—this fact is less an excuse for Harvard than evidence of a nation-wide malady. Whatever the causes of runaway tuition at the national level, the result is that Harvard has little incentive to keeps its price down. Tuition certainly does not put Harvard at a recruiting disadvantage when it is in the company of high-priced rivals who cannot compete with its financial aid. Some might even argue that...
...Well-known radio personalities for more than a decade in Australia, the two gained an international following during the Sydney Olympic Games with their irreverent nightly television show, "The Dream." Unimpressed with Sydney's official mascots, the boys created their own, Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat, which became a runaway success and was carried around the Games by the likes of Billie Jean King. Athletes clamored to be on the show, willing to offer themselves up to ridicule for the chance to appear on must-see TV. If you were in Sydney and you weren't watching...
Jacques Rogge, the urbane and witty Belgian surgeon who was elected president of the International Olympic Committee in July, is quietly - but decisively - setting a new tone for the governing body of the Olympic movement. Acting like a CEO trying to get control over runaway costs and a bloated bureaucracy, Rogge has cut expenses by reducing the number of I.O.C. staff members attending the Games. He has also made it clear that his style is very different from that of his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch, a man of expensive tastes. Rogge, a three-time Olympic competitor in yachting, is forgoing...