Word: siliconing
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...sign off on a men's-magazine cover, for a story about predatory businesswomen, with a terrified man on a dinner plate and a pair of nail-polished hands about to dig in. "It's the Zeitgeist," a male editor tells her. "Female execs are taking over. Movie studios, Silicon Valley, maybe our next President--God help...
...your résumé up on Yahoo! HotJobs just yet. There's a war for talent in Silicon Valley, and Microsoft is bleeding troops to Google (which is bleeding troops to Facebook). Microsoft needs you. Just keep muttering something about cloud computing. That's hot right...
...battle with Stanford for who can be hipper, life sciences is one of the few advantages that the Northeast has vis-à -vis Silicon Valley,†he said...
...build a real community in a fake environment? "The benefits that accrue when you create these live/work clusters are pretty well proven. You can think of Silicon Valley as an example," says Dunleavy, who expects most buyers will be film industry employees, though the units would be available to anyone. Media reports set the project's cost at around $400 million, a figure Pinewood doesn't dispute but won't confirm. So another possible benefit could be to recoup costs by selling properties that almost certainly won't go cheaply. Moreover, the land in question - which Pinewood owns - is located...
...economy. Boxer hails from California, which has already passed the strongest state legislation on climate change, cutting carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Far from hurting the state economically, Boxer notes, the carbon bill has helped California become the center for green innovation in the U.S., with Silicon Valley venture capitalists pouring billions into alternative energy start-ups. Those businesses will create new, green jobs that should make up for the short-term costs of cutting carbon. "The cure for global warming is positive," says Boxer. "That makes it easy for me to approach it with hope...