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Primarily a solo artist, Scofield often puts together new all-star casts for each of his projects, most recently enlisting bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Bill Stewart for the John Scofield Trio...
...modern times, when the word “housewife” has become synonymous with “desperate,” the image of an unconditionally happy ’50s homemaker is a hard act to swallow. The generational gap is further widened when we discover that the housewife’s outlet is not in her teenage gardener, but in composing TV ad jingles...
...giant-screen spectacle that Hanks co-wrote and narrates, the movie re-creates what it's like to travel to the moon, bound around on the surface and head back home. Conventional movies have given viewers a sense of this before. The IMAX production, Hanks hopes, will swallow them up whole. "The moon landings affected us emotionally, intellectually, spiritually," he says. "I want to make that experience as visceral for people as possible...
...things to come in India's booming outsourcing sector. "There's a growing amount of confidence and growing resources among these firms," says Joe Sigelman, co-CEO of OfficeTiger, which will reach $100 million in sales this year and may go public in 2006. Strong, small firms will swallow others to solidify their positions against Indian outsourcing giants like Wipro and Infosys, says Peter Bender-Samuel, CEO of Everest Group, a research firm. U.S. players like Accenture and IBM Global Services, meanwhile, have a new kind of competitor to worry about, Bender-Samuel says. "It makes life difficult for them...
...falling profits are being further eroded by legal costs incurred fighting allegations of dubious practices. Her hope is not that big pharma collapses, but that it returns to the business of trying to produce better medicines. For the companies, would that really be such a bitter pill to swallow...