Word: siliconing
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...hopes to siphon off some of the steam. Provence Promotion - an association that recruits new businesses to the Marseilles area - is trying to lure successful expats back from America. Since September, the Home Sweet Home program has contacted over 5,500 French entrepreneurs and specialized workers in New York, Silicon Valley and southern California with offers to help relocate or open new businesses. The program - now targeting Atlanta, Boston and Miami - has enticed four U.S.-based French business owners to come back; another 15 are thinking about it. Director general Guy Giustini says: "We're encouraging successful entrepreneurs and skilled...
...they fear getting on the wrong side of a White House that is known to have a long memory. "The White House is pressuring them," says Congressman Bob Matsui, a California Democrat who is a member of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and who is close to Silicon Valley technology interests. "[But] I don't know of any group of businesses that are pushing this thing...
...Afghanistan, when its technology enabled commanders at a base in, say, Tampa, Fla., to see real-time images of Afghan battlefields. Contracts soon multiplied. "The U.S. has plenty of firepower," says Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, a tech-focused mutual-fund group in Silicon Valley. "But Frank Lanza tells them where to point it." L-3's military customers also include Canada and other NATO countries...
...been studying how to deliver varying but predictable electrical pulses to inflict increasing levels of harm: to deny, degrade, damage or destroy, to use the Pentagon's parlance. HPM engineers call it "dial-a-hurt." But that hurt can cause unintended problems: beyond taking out a tyrant's silicon chips, HPMs could destroy nearby heart pacemakers and other life-critical electrical systems in hospitals or aboard aircraft (that's why the U.S. military is putting them only on long-range cruise missiles). The U.S. used a more primitive form of these weapons--known as soft bombs--against Yugoslavia...
Gore's decision not to run opened up opportunities, but competition is fierce. Lieberman, whose crusade against violent and sexually explicit entertainment has left him with few friends in Hollywood, is working Silicon Valley hard. And in New York City, several of Gore's former backers plan to meet this week to consider their options. "This is the first time in my experience there's not been an obvious candidate that all the most engaged activists here are going to get behind," says one of them, investment banker Steve Rattner. "At the moment, it's a real free...