Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telephony and the Internet--all the buzz words behind today's hottest stocks--you invariably come back to Cisco, which is the go-to guy behind the equipment that makes this stuff work. Dot.com companies are loaded with Cisco's products. The company is held in awe by Silicon Valley and Wall Street for its tech expertise and its financial acumen...
...Bronson wants you to feel Silicon Valley's heartbeat. He wants you to know why people pour in from around the globe to struggle at no-name start-ups and fight for $1,200 studios next to strip malls. The valley is the epicenter of the digital revolution, the soul of change. Its lure must be more than a crass grab for cash, right...
...does The Nudist feel so often like a motivational speech for Amway recruits? Perhaps because of comments like "There is no true failure in Silicon Valley" or "To create and risk failing is the essence of feeling alive." When Bronson isn't exhorting readers to "give salesmen their due respect," he's reminding us that the futurist George Gilder is always right--technology will prevail. Through Bronson's rosy lens, everyone is boldly striving in the valley, even if it's just for free cappuccinos in the break room...
Like a Hollywood producer who has discovered a new starlet, Bronson is so fixated on the valley's magic that the greed, disillusionment and boredom that are just as much a part of the picture rarely come into focus. The only thing that seems to bother him is the vacant landscape. But what about the worker bees who assemble electronic components for subminimum wages on their cramped living-room floors? And how long can any but a handful of key players in a chaotic start-up sustain their contact highs? If Bronson had dared to bare all, then The Nudist...
...tenets. Says Marshall Chance, head of the Nuwaubians' Holy Tabernacle Ministries: "The main thing that brings us together is fellowship and facts." Among those facts: that black people are genetically su-perior to whites and that the Nuwaubians are direct descendants of Egyptians who, having walked from the Nile Valley to the Americas before continental drift separated the landmasses, are actually the original Native Americans. York and several hundred of his followers wandered from New York to Georgia in 1993, buying up 476 acres of land on the perimeter of Eatonton for $575,000. And now, as a tribe...