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Employee satisfaction, Welch says, translates to customer satisfaction.

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEEING DOUBLE in the square | 5/19/1999 | See Source »

Network chiefs, having watched their prime-time audience share erode from 91% for the big-three networks 20 years ago to 60% shared by six of them today, seem too paralyzed to make real changes. "Networks are locked in a box like the rest of corporate America," says Norman Lear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Firing Up The Imagination | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

At the heart of the lineup is senior outfielder Aaron Braunstein. He is currently hitting .336 with nine dingers and 40 RBI, which translates into a hefty .638 slugging percentage.

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Begins Beanpot Quest | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

Ever since his student years at Manchester University in the 1950s (a working-class boy, he paid his way through school with a variety of jobs, including a stint as a nightclub bouncer), Foster loved utilitarian buildings: barns, factories, windmills. He did measured drawings of them when other students were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Norman Foster: Lifting The Spirit | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

1908 Hans Geiger invents a machine that translates invisible nuclear radiation into audible clicks

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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