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...sees his company becoming a one-stop, vertically integrated shop that provides everything from engineering and product design to manufacturing and distribution. "We are a variable-cost manufacturer," explains Marks. "We share the infrastructure among a bunch of customers, so when demand for one product dries up we can switch to something else and we don't get stuck with an idle factory." If the market for handheld computers takes a dive, for instance, the same assembly lines can be used to produce a product of similar size, like a cell phone. That's an efficiency not available to someone...
...blues, performed in a blunt, bracing style full of sharp corners and spicy chords and often startlingly reminiscent of his no-nonsense horn playing. What took him so long? You don't need to be a full-time pianist to revel in the part-time playing of this switch-hitting jazz master...
WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE U.S. The growing discontent over Europe's currency system could prove disastrous here, because many foreign investors holding euros would probably switch to dollar-denominated investments. That might help bonds and to a lesser degree stocks, but another consequence would be to thrust the greenback's value even higher, further debilitating manufacturing in the U.S., which has already lost 785,000 jobs in the past 12 months. The record U.S. trade deficit would spiral higher...
...sisterly image is no guarantee that girls will switch off TRL or that Lewis can draw older women with political topics, as her model Donahue did. There is something touchingly old-fashioned about Lewis' belief that people will turn on talk TV for its edifying effects; when Donahue ended his show in 1996, it was after a desperate attempt to beat the sleaze slingers at their own game...
...wallets, and features two of the Net's fiercest competitors, Microsoft and AOL Time Warner (parent company of TIME). Starbucks used to let shoppers pay for their purchases by simply providing a credit card and some personal information--like most e-commerce sites. But in May, it made the switch to Passport. Now every time a buyer makes a purchase, his e-mail address and other personal information is sent to Microsoft to be verified--and stored in Microsoft's vast database. Passport, which Microsoft plans to roll out in force this fall, already has more than 50 affiliated sites...