Word: unites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June, Jim quit his job as a manager at Warner Bros. and took a position in Wilmington (pop. 13,000) with Technicolor's fast-growing film-distribution unit, one of many cutting-edge firms relocating to small-town America. He is elated at the move, but Kathy, born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, isn't so sure. Still working at Warner Bros. and settling affairs in Burbank, she came to Wilmington for the first time a week before the parade, wearing a fixed smile and a dazed, where-am-I? stare. The couple spent the week house hunting...
Another big imponderable is the likely effect on European and world economies of the scheduled 1999 replacement of 10 to 12 European national currencies by a common unit of money, the euro. On the more parochial subject of the effect on U.S. business, Hormats thinks the switch to a common currency will reduce costs enough for European companies to make them more competitive with American firms. But Zimmerman believes the effects on balance will be favorable. Companies exporting to Europe from the U.S. or from plants in, say, Germany or Italy need not worry about how many lire a mark...
...updated the portfolio once a year, the returns would triple those posted by the Dow Jones industrial average over the previous two decades. O'Higgins' 1991 book, Beating the Dow, was an instant hit and spawned a cultlike following. There are two Websites, three mutual funds, dozens of Unit Investment Trusts (UITs) and untold thousands of personal accounts leashed to the dogs. In all, probably more than $20 billion is invested in his strategy. And, uh, by the way, it doesn't work...
According to Stephen C. Biswell, president and CEO of Nash-De Camp, the company has recognized the UFW as the "certified bargaining unit" between management and its workers for the past 15 years...
Though Harvard is 3-0, the team definitely feels it has yet to play up to its potential. Coming off of a pair of "ugly wins," according to Scott, the team is hoping to execute more crisply as it continues to gel as a unit...