Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Politicians who couldn't even find Silicon Valley on a map two years ago all praise the importance of universal 'Net access and computers in education. The current robustness of the economy is often laid at the feet of increased productivity due to the intelligent application of computers...
Frequent traders can also miss out on juicy profits, as Ron Garrett, who buys and sells stock while shaving, has painfully discovered. Garrett, professor of engineering at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, bought computer maker Unisys for $5 a share some time ago, only to dump it a few months later when it failed to show a quick gain. "If I didn't have easy access [to trading] maybe I wouldn't have jumped so fast," Garrett says of his sale of Unisys, which closed last week at $23 a share...
...Philadelphia National Bank when he was a $600,000-a-year executive vice president and she a $24,000-a-year computer programmer. He was 42, and she was 26. He was married, with a daughter, and Ellen was single, born in the Midwest and raised middle class near Valley Forge, Pa. They had an affair, and he soon moved out on his wife of 19 years...
Whose spinners will prevail? It's too early to tell. Clearly, though, this is only the first of many lobbying rounds that D.C. heavyweights will get rich(er) fighting, as Silicon Valley prepares to do battle over such digital-era terrain as banking, encryption and copyright. Let the air wars begin...
...later and did just that, the FBI got their man--and Jones got a polite letter from the agency thanking him for his help (but no reward). As Kaczynski comes before a federal judge today to be sentenced to life in prison, Jones, now an English teacher at Utah Valley State College, plans to watch the news along with the rest of the public. But he has written Kaczynski a letter to ask him one question that still bothers him: Was his theory right...