Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the security question is all settled, it is time to unlock the true power of on-line shopping. Sure, shopping on-line allows you to forgo trips to the mall, long holiday season lines and the aggravation of popular products being out-of-stock, but you are also forced to forgo the ability to touch and examine the products you buy and the convenience of bringing such products home as soon as the purchase has been made...
...September, citing stock market turmoil, Harvard officials maintained the decrease in the endowment value was not a long-term problem, but nevertheless they were still closely monitoring the situation...
...with it? A business story's got no blood, no guts, no prime time. So business is left largely to expert talking heads. On cable, market-oriented business networks are surging like hot IPOs, but sometimes they give us information overload. The moment-to-moment changes in the major stock averages flash nervously on Bloomberg News; the stock tickers scroll rapidly on CNBC and CNNfn, citing the latest prices of individual shares; today's "stocks to watch" are featured on almost all the channels. All this encourages quick in-and-out trading, usually a route to the poorhouse...
...recently gave a speech to managers of a fast-growing Silicon Valley company. Before I began, the CEO pulled me aside to tell me about the audience. He said they had all become rich from company stock options and didn't need to work anymore. The CEO explained that the managers stayed on because they were intrinsically motivated to make the world a better place...
...smart mutants. There's no telling how far this evolutionary shortcut can go. Each generation of geniuses will be smarter and start working younger. It's possible that the high-tech companies of the future could be managed entirely via inter-fetus telepathy. Some entrepreneurs will cash out their stock options and retire before they are born...