Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beat Iowa State 42-7 12. Notre Dame 7-1-0 Beat Boston College 31-26 13. Missouri 7-2-0 Beat Colorado 38-12 14. Tulane 8-0-0 Beat Memphis 41-31 15. Michigan 7-2-0 Beat No. 19 Penn. State 27-0 16. Virginia Tech 7-2-0 Idle 17. Georgia 6-2-0 Idle 18. Texas 7-2-0 Beat Oklahoma St 37-34 19. Penn State 6-2-0 Lost to No. 15 Michigan 27-0 20. Virginia 7-2-0 Lost to No. 5 Florida State...
...Working at home for me has been wonderful," says Comes, who has now been with the high-tech company for 18 years. "I know my mom is O.K., and this allows me to focus on doing my job better." Armed with a laptop PC, an all-in-one fax machine and printers, e-mail, conference-calling capacity and other gear, Comes is able to keep in touch with her colleagues and perform her job of developing and analyzing software from her home. It helps that she works for a computer company--her Hewlett-Packard equipment can be updated regularly with...
...uptick in employment. But it does not create more jobs in the nation as a whole. Market forces do that, and that's why 10 million jobs have been created since 1990. But most of those jobs have been created by small- and medium-size companies, from high-tech start-ups to franchised cleaning services. FORTUNE 500 companies, on the other hand, have erased more jobs than they have created this past decade, and yet they are the biggest beneficiaries of corporate welfare...
...same hysteria flows when large, fast-growing high-tech companies start shopping around for new plant locations. Intel Corp. invited six Western states--Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Utah--to compete for a new computer-chip fabrication plant, or fab, and selected the winner in March 1993. A senior executive explained the decision this way to the San Jose Mercury News: "We're going to build where Intel gets the best deal...
Since governments are not taxable, this arrangement enabled Intel to escape property and sales taxes. Then there is the investment-tax-credit deal, which allows Intel to pocket a portion of the state income taxes withheld from its bunny-suited tech workers' paychecks. In addition, the state provided money to train workers. These and other benefits add up to a third of a billion dollars in aid for Intel...