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...High-Tech Gear --U.S. ground forces dropped into Afghanistan will be supplied with the latest weapons and equipment, including...
Until recently, corporate America would never consider cutting the salaries of many to avoid cutting the jobs of a few. But these days, a wide range of businesses, from San Francisco ad agencies and high-tech outfits like Agilent to steelmakers in Pittsburgh, are breaking the taboo. "We did a 7% layoff that probably would have been 15% had we not done some creative things," says Charles Morgan, 58, CEO of the database-management firm Acxiom, of Conway, Ark. In April the company made a 5% reduction in salaries for people earning more than $25,000, then gave stock options...
...powerful x-ray machines that will slice and dice baggage onscreen, the armed sky marshals ready to drop any prospective terrorist in their tracks. Nor will it be the pilots armed with hollow point bullets ready to defend the sanctum of the cockpit, or any other high-tech or high-force solution. Rather, the most intimidating obstacle in a hijacker’s mind will be the tens or hundreds of passengers who will believe the worst of their imaginations. The hijackers on the 11th played on our expectations of the credible outcomes of a hijacking: very high-stress, high...
America's vaunted New Economy is heading south--not just on the NASDAQ but on the map. Despite the global slide in tech profits and stocks, firms like New World Network are betting on Latin America, now the world's fastest-growing market for Internet services...
...What is clear, however, is that the terrorists struck at the worst possible time for Asia. In the months before the attacks, the region's economies were already in dire shape, largely because the U.S. market for the things Asia makes?computers, cars, high-tech gadgets?had all but dried up. Exports account for more than 60% of Malaysia and Singapore's GDP, while the number is around 50% for Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea and the Philippines. About half of those shipments go to the U.S., and analysts say that the attacks could cause American demand to nosedive a further...