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They're still waiting. Today Reliance is anything but paper free. Memos and forms proliferate as never before. Employees shun the computerized mail system. And productivity gains have been nil. While the company has curtailed its spending on automation, it has not abandoned its ambition. "It was not a realistic goal in 1983," concedes senior vice president Ronald Sammons, "and it isn't a realistic goal in 1993. Maybe in the year...
Clearly there are a great many kinds of full-fledged and fractional billionaires. There are the inheritors and the self-made, the legit and the tainted, the inventors and the investors, the generous and the tight. Some shun the spotlight, like 94-year-old shipping billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig. Others crave it, like former self-proclaimed billionaire Donald Trump. Sam Walton, who'd be the richest businessman in the world, Forbes says, if he hadn't divvied his $18.5 billion Wal-Mart stake among his family, is famous for his battered Ford pickup, while the late Bhagwan Rajneesh...
...talking serious vinegar now, the familiar sour wine (a literal translation of the French vin aigre) that has become the condiment of the hour -- and not just to sprinkle on salads or pickle veggies. As diet-conscious customers shun butter and cream, top toques at grand-luxe restaurants increasingly use it to give low-cal piquancy to their creations. At Manhattan's Montrachet, chef Debra Ponzek uses champagne vinegar as a basis for lemongrass sauce and dollops cider vinegar into a ginger sauce for roast duck...
...loud radios, graffiti and aggressive panhandling -- create an atmosphere in which more serious crime is likely to occur. Those petty disturbances are the ones that trouble and frighten ordinary citizens the most. In turn, their fear acts like an acid to disintegrate neighborhood ties. It leads citizens to shun the streets and abdicate responsibility for conditions outside their doors. That invites a dismal cycle of deteriorating conditions, more fear -- and more crime...
David Shim, 21, a Harvard senior, made a conscious decision in high school to shun the science track in college even though he was brilliant at its disciplines and scored 1580 out of a possible 1600 on his college boards. "All my teachers were disappointed that I didn't go to M.I.T.," he says, "but I really wanted to avoid the stereotype of the science geek." Shim chose to major in government, and has been accepted at Harvard Law School...