Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are real trade-offs here," Ware says...
...really drives consumer demand. New York research firm Jupiter Communications predicts that one-fifth of American homes will have a digital subscriber line, cable modem and other high-speed pipe by 2002. You can bet that everyone in those homes--whether they like to play games, shop, chat, or trade stocks online--will want to share the big bandwidth...
...hour each session. That's when they are allowed into an exercise space to roam within the tight confines of individual wire enclosures 10 ft. from each other. And thus Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Timothy McVeigh (of Oklahoma City infamy) and Ramzi Yousef (mastermind of the World Trade Center attack) get a break from solitary confinement and a chance to be neighborly at the federal maximum-security prison in Florence, Colo.--a.k.a. Supermax. The repartee isn't exactly Firing Line. "They bulls___," says Dennis Hartley, one of McVeigh's new lawyers. "Nobody's crazy enough to talk about escape...
Waste Management may specialize in garbage, but it isn't the only outfit accused of playing dirty. Far from it. Just last week, Motorola sued Intel for allegedly hiring away key employees to obtain its microchip trade secrets. Minneapolis-based agribusiness giant Cargill recently acknowledged that a rogue employee may have lifted proprietary genetic material from a competitor, an admission that effectively killed a $650 million deal to sell its North American seed division to a German biotech venture...
...protect themselves against employees who walk out for the next best offer, corporations have taken a harder line against talent raids, essentially equating them to espionage. That seems to be the case with Wal-Mart's trade-secret suit against Amazon.com The nation's largest retailer contends that the Web's leading e-tailer lured 15 of its top techies out to Seattle from Wal-Mart's hometown of Bentonville, Ark., for the express purpose of duplicating its prized information database--a vast system that tracks customer shopping patterns and product flow. "There's a lot of computer talent...