Word: sprints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Make sure the flue is open. Go to Cafe India on Brattle Street. In the foyer, inconspicuously remove a pack of matches from the bin, without entering the restaurant. Hah! You got them. If waiter sees you, sprint out of restaurant, yelling, "they're after me, they're after me!" Return to dorm room. Light a match and light newspaper in several places. Watch your fire burn! (Matches available at Christie's for free...
...decisions presented as thumbs-up, thumbs-down recommendations, Rubin wants debate. "He is a master at eliciting opinions," says David Lipton, a former Treasury official. The emblematic Treasury encounter is what Rubin calls a "rolling meeting," which cruises from one corner of the globe to the other as aides sprint in and out of the room. Says Lipton: "Often in meetings Rubin will cut right through the hierarchy, reach down to one of the youngsters at the table and ask what that person thinks. It creates a whole lot of energy--and an awful lot of fresh thinking...
...become reality in only a year or two--after billions of dollars in hardware upgrades. AT&T's dynamic CEO, C. Michael Armstrong, who took over in November 1997, is out to win your loyalty on many fronts, in the face of ferocious competition from giants like MCI Worldcom, Sprint, Bell Atlantic and SBC Communications. Each wants to sell you a bundle of wired and wireless connections...
...study released last week, cited the billions of dollars being spent by companies like Sprint on their own high-speed voice and data networks, saying that such robust competition "will lead, in the near future, to greater deployment of this capability." In other words, more people will get better wires cheaper and faster. And that's good news...
...sprint is on. When the starting gun goes off again this weekend, the Crimson had better get off the blocks...