Word: wave
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Jenkins, a six-term legislator from Baton Rouge, is riding a wave of growing Republican strength in this formerly one-party state. (G.O.P. Governor Mike Foster, who swept to victory over Fields last year, has a 70% approval rating.) Jenkins has been courting conservatives with a message of small government and has embraced Huey Long-style populism by calling for abolition of the IRS and replacing it with a national sales...
Lamm said that Americans face a "red scare" of a different sort than that imagined by former senator Joe McCarthy. Alluding to the size of the federal bureaucracy, Lamm said that Americans are drowning in a "tidal wave...
...turned horse buggies into curiosities, new technology like the Internet, Grove predicts, will render obsolete hundreds of businesses that are thriving today. The lessons Grove has learned in building Intel into a giant resonate beyond the inside of a PC. "People who try and fight the wave of a new technology lose in spite of their best efforts," he writes. "They waste valuable time...
...surprising smell emanates from Only the Paranoid Survive (Currency Doubleday; 202 pages; $27.50), a literate new business-technology book from Intel CEO Andy Grove. The first wave comes as he describes how the microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma...
Although PDAs struggled in the early '90s, a second wave of industry leaders is preparing another assualt on your Coop schedule. And the fighters in this rematch are leaner, meaner and designed to work...