Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conventional three-act movie. There's room here for Ben to shock his family by dressing as Hitler for Halloween, for a faux-naive stripper to electrify Nate's theater, for the strange power of a new-model Cadillac to cloud the mind of a '50s male. In short, Liberty Heights seems to encompass all the humor, sadness and weirdness of ordinary life in an utterly winning, morally acute...
...emotionally) imprecise region that lies somewhere between a hungry gut and a yawning ego. But it has kept Moore busy (21 features since 1992) and won her an Oscar nomination (for Boogie Nights) and the respectful regard of directors ranging from Steven Spielberg (The Lost World) to Robert Altman (Short Cuts), if not yet the kind of stardom that can carry a picture...
...spent living alone in a cabin by Walden Pond, memorialized in Walden (1854), involved a similar quest for some "trace of the Ineffable," but now he wanted to remove himself from the center of his observations and let the natural objects he studied speak for him. He hoped, in short, to be less romantic and more scientific...
...There are almost no short-term cost savings [in a merger] if you do it right," says Fred Zimmerman. He has been on 16 company boards as a small businessman turned professor (of engineering and international management) at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. He counsels would-be acquirers to be prepared for an increase in expenditures beyond the price of the acquisition. Says Zimmerman: "You'll want to improve the [acquired] company because it's now your property. So you'll probably want to buy more equipment or expand distribution or develop a new product. These...
...amazing what today's cell phones can do on a digital network. Their latest trick: accessing the Web to check the weather, look up a stock price or find out if the Rangers won. They can also read e-mail, send a short text message, keep a calendar and respond to voice commands. But the one thing they can't do is offer reliable service. Is it any wonder that a majority of mobile phone users have stuck with old-style, no-frills analog service? Analog is more expensive, but it's everywhere, while digital networks still suffer from spotty...