Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Should you play the Son of Cisco game at home? I don't think so. First, you have to be awfully nimble, because you never know when the son will turn prodigal, and most of these smaller companies are niche players battling Cisco on only one or two fronts. Second, what makes Cisco truly great is its management. These other companies are unproven. Third, only one company has ever really competed against Cisco hand to hand without getting crushed--Ascend, which just got bought by Lucent. If you insist on a Cisco relative, Lucent, an East Coast rival, might...
...when he eases up, he does so only partway. His idea of a dropout is a genius inventor taking a turn as a lead technologist for Disney. An engineer who moves to Maine to become a glass blower might have been a better example...
Life behind the scenes has its merits, I suppose, but deep down under, I think we all crave our fifteen minutes of fame, wherever and in whatever form they may turn up. The key to these few precious moments in the limelight, it would seem, is to grasp their proximity, hastily prepare as best one can, and proceed to flourish, flaunt, razzle and dazzle with all cameras pointed at you. Often, however, this is the most difficult piece of the task...
...country's government and electoral system. President Khatami, who was elected in 1997 in a landslide denunciation by voters of the conservative clergy, supports the demonstrators but has urged them to avoid provocation. And with good reason: Thursday?s attack may signal the willingness of conservative elements to turn democracy protests into a security crisis...
...palpable, and even though it lost hundreds of men in the process, its military campaign to eject the intruders also looked set to succeed if diplomacy failed. So where once it looked like a sticky wicket for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Pakistan?s Kashmir adventure may yet turn out to have been just the tonic for his embattled government as he faces Sonia Gandhi in September?s election...