Word: sprawl
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...that the math would add up to 3. To get there, she could do worse than to follow in the footsteps of Lou Gerstner. The IBM chief inherited a company torn by turf wars and paralyzed by too many products in the early '90s. Gerstner healed wounds, cut the sprawl and scaled back the low-margin consumer-PC business, focusing instead on supremely stable high-end servers and the lucrative service contracts that came with them. "IBM is proof that it can be turned around," says Tony Paoni, professor of technology and e-commerce at Northwestern University's Kellogg School...
While new housing generally doesn't warrant more than a fleeting stomach knot over the sacrifice of yet another field to the demon sprawl, the Sunrise project, as Kennecott has dubbed the 40,000-person development, will stand at the unlikely intersection of the latest in urban planning and new pressures on the mining business. A planned community a la New Urbanism, Sunrise will offer residents jobs and stores just a walk away, along with trees, parks and affordable housing for diverse incomes. The city of South Jordan, where Sunrise will be located, entitled the land...
...live in the suburbs of New York or Boston, traveling into the city is a regular, if not daily, occurrence. This is not the case with Detroit. There is a widening rift between the suburbs and the city due to expressway development, urban and suburban sprawl and age-old racial tensions. With a new freeway system that drew people out of the city and made commuting from the suburbs easier, the Eisenhower administration’s new home deals, the city’s growing African American population and the ’67 riots, many white people moved...
...year for Intelliseek's services. Individual searchers can exploit some of the same expertise for free at www.profusion.com, where handpicked collections of resources are grouped and searchable by subject. More specialized and tightly focused search tools are the kind of solutions to the invisible Web's sprawl you can expect to see more of, says Barbara Quint, editor of Searcher, a journal for database professionals. "What you get are high quality sites, preselected directories and metadata [data about data] collections. They may be a minuscule proportion of what's on the Web, but hopefully they're the good stuff...
...school. Other residents merely object on the basis of the impact the plans would have on the town’s traffic patterns or environment. They don’t want the development to destroy the small-town nature of Chapel Hill or bring the same kind of sprawl that private developers are stringently prohibited from creating. And finally, there’s an issue of money. As a branch of the state government, Carolina does not have to pay property taxes on the land and buildings it owns. While the town will not lose much property tax revenue from...