Word: slower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...primary hurdles to widespread adoption of B2B strategies are not technological but organizational and all too human, in the view of Stanford University professor Hau Lee, who has spent his career studying supply-chain management. "Large corporations," he says, "are slower to let go of old business practices. They believe maintaining the status quo will help them preserve their commanding position as a market leader...
...drug has a relatively short "half-life" (the time it takes for the substance to pass out of your body), it's effective in getting you to sleep ?- but not in keeping you there. Studies show that users get about four hours of sometimes fitful sleep using Sonata. The slower-to-work Ambien knocks you out for up to eight hours once it takes effect, but leaves you feeling groggy and hungover in the morning. The stakes for both companies are high: Ambien last year had U.S. sales of more than $450 million, and some analysts say Sonata could...
...stroll away in the village center. Southern Village's public elementary school sports a columned red brick facade and gabled roof. The homes, built in a variety of styles, from Charleston single to Georgian town house, have porches reaching out to tree-lined sidewalks and narrower streets with slower traffic. It all invites suburbanites to get out of their Toyota Camrys and interact for a change...
...financial and general news wires; and a direct link to markets where a trader can make dozens or even hundreds of trades in a day. The same tools are generally available at home or in the office via the Internet, though they are less easily managed and access is slower. The day-trading firms make money by taking a commission on each trade. Day traders try to profit from fractional moves in their stocks, and most close out all their positions before each day ends...
Even in the slower summer months, Cushman said, contractors have had to work around a busy library...