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The American Economy
"New Economy."
The second half of the 1990s marked the longest sustained stretch of economic growth in U.S. history. Unlike other periods of long-term economic expansion reversed by rising inflation, growth continued and even accelerated as inflation declined. The combination of rapid technological change, rise of the services sector, and emergence of the global marketplace had experts convinced that the United States was in the midst of "a second industrial revolution." Despite the historical inaccuracy of the label (the second industrial revolution took place during the latter half of the nineteenth century), there can be no denying that a new U.S. economy began to take shape—One that defied many long-standing economic axioms. Since 1980, for example, the economy lost approximately 43 million jobs through restructuring and downsizing. Economists called them "sunset jobs." In their place, as analyst Horace W. Brock pointed out, that same economy created seventy-one million new jobs, a net gain of twenty-eight million positions. More important, economists regarded these slots as "sunrise jobs" in industries that had a future. The majority of economists attributed these developments to a restructuring of companies and an economy abetted by such governmental policies as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), enacted in 1994. NAFTA created a continental economy, so the argument ran,...
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Banking, Money, and Finance
Seven Days That Shook the World.
One week in April 1998 rocked the financial world. On 6 April the huge insurance and brokerage firm Travelers Group announced plans to merge with Citicorp, then the second largest bank in the United States, The new company was capitalized with assets of $76 billion and immediately became the largest financial-services company in the world. By including nonbank assets, Citicorp-Travelers was valued at $697.5 billion. One week later, on 13 April, the chairman of Banc One, John B. McCoy, announced the merger of his company, valued at $116 billion, with First Chicago NBD Corporation, valued at $115 billion. On the same day, Hugh McColl Jr. of NationsBank engineered a merger with BankAmerica, creating a new conglomerate with deposits of $346 billion, the second largest bank in the United States and the fifth largest in the world. These mergers were part of a complex, ongoing revolution that by the 1990s had already begun to transform banking, finance, and investment. At the center of this revolution was a conflict between what bankers call "consolidation" and "disintermediation," the latter meaning the removal of intermediaries, for example banks, from financial transactions. The advocates of "disintermediation," such as computer-software giants Microsoft and Intuit, believe that the future belongs to companies that can master new technology and give customers and...
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Bull Market
Riding the Bull.
It is an understatement to say that during the 1990s the stock market was volatile. On 17 April 1991 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above three thousand points for the first time in history. By 1995 the Dow had gained 33.5 percent in value and passed the four thousand mark. In 1997 it reached a high of eight thousand, but began to fluctuate wildly and unpredictably. In late October 1997, for instance, the stock market came as close to crashing as it had in the decade when the Dow plummeted a record 554 points in a single day, equaling 7.2 percent of its total value, only to rebound with a record 337-point rise the following day. At the end of the week the market ebbed and flowed its way to a mark of 7,442.08, a loss of a mere 4 percent in value. Even as it declined, however, the value of stocks remained far greater than it had been at the beginning of the decade. By 1998 the Dow reached nine thousand; it closed the decade near eleven thousand points, with no apparent limits on its ascent. The problem was that no one really knew how the market would perform over the short or long term. Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan, periodically tried to slow economic growth and bring the soaring stock market back to earth by raising interest rates as a hedge against inflation. Greenspan interpreted the "correction" in 1997 as a "salutary event" for a market...
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Business and Crime
Corporate Crime Wave.
American business, which shattered many records for growth and profits during the 1990s, also made its contribution to the annals of corporate crime. In one of the most publicized corporate crimes of the decade, the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) agreed in 1997 to pay a record fine of $100 million for price fixing on two commodities: lysine, a feed supplement for livestock, and citric acid, an ingredient used in soft drinks and detergent. In exchange for the guilty plea and a promise to aid the Justice Department in its ongoing investigation, the government granted ADM immunity from prosecution on charges of fixing the price of high-fructose corn syrup, one of the two leading products the company manufactures. (Fuel ethanol is the other). The insurance industry also provided ample opportunity for criminal activity. In 1994 Metropolitan Life was fined $20 million for cheating its customers and Mutual of New York paid $12.5 million to policyholders in Alabama whom the company had bilked in what The Wall Street Journal characterized as only "the latest in a series involving deceptive sale practices of the nation's biggest insurers." In 1996 Prudential, the largest insurance company in the United States, was fined $35 million and ordered to pay an additional $1 billion in restitution to policyholders it had defrauded. "Churning" was the name given to the racket...
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Business Management
The rapidly changing economy of the 1990s demanded that companies large and small alter their modes of operation. The first popular managerial fad of the decade was known as "reengineering." James Champy, cofounder of the consulting firm CSC Index, and Michael Hammer, an electrical engineer and former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), conceived of "reengineering" and brought it to international prominence. Champy and Hammer defined the concept as "the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance such as cost, quality, service and speed." Central to reengineering is the tenet that companies identify their essential activities and processes, and then make them as efficient as possible. Operations or individuals on the periphery, therefore, had to be discarded. Reengineering thus provided the theoretical rationale for much of the corporate downsizing that took place during the decade. "Don't automate, obliterate," Hammer insisted. In Champy's and Hammer's view, however, reengineering amounted to more than merely altering, refining, and streamlining processes. As they envisioned, it was nothing less than a formula for corporate revolution. If revolution it was, then reengineering failed. There are three basic reasons to explain its breakdown....
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Business Practices
Asea Brown Boveri.
A distinctly new breed of corporation emerged during the 1990s. The largest engineering firm in the world, employing more than 213,000 persons in fifty countries, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) was the product of a merger between the Swedish company Asea and the Swiss company Brown Boveri, which was completed in August 1987. To manage such a vast organization with as minimal a bureaucracy as possible, ABB chief executive Percy Barnevik introduced a complex managerial structure. An executive committee supervises all facets of the operation while the company itself is broken into thirty-five business sectors with an additional five thousand profit centers. The objective was to combine the benefits of being a large, international organization with the advantages of a small business. Although it has proven highly effective, the intricate managerial structure and practice of ABB has thus far not provided a model for other companies to imitate. Business experts suggest that few companies can combine the global vision with the local presence that has defined ABB, Analyses indicate that the company is free of pointless and destructive infighting, while constructive criticism and debate is welcomed from any quarter. Managers from different countries communicate with each other and work together. Corporate decisions are thought through, supported by information and analysis, and carried...
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Changing Face of Business
Throughout the 1990s business offered women a mixture of advances and disappointments. Increasing numbers of women entered the workplace and moved into traditionally male-dominated occupations. At the same time, women were paid on average 30 percent less than their male counterparts doing the same job. The National Committee on Pay Equity found that women lost an average $12,573 per year, or as much as $440,047 during the course of a life-time because of unequal pay practices. Yet, as the decade drew to a close, women themselves noted the positive changes taking place in the office and boardroom. "In the past decade," observed Renee Amoore of Amoore Health Systems Inc. in 1997, "the work place has become more dynamic. Women are now able to compete aggressively at the same level as men. I have found over the years that men are now more receptive to including us at the executive-management level" E. Lee Beard of First Federal Savings Bank of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, added "there are more women in management and executive positions. This has provided more peers with whom to network who have many common bonds in terms of career challenges." Finally, Katherine Bishop of Lebanon [Pa.] Seaboard Corporation noted that "there are more women in responsible positions and therefore greater acceptance of women managers by both men and other women." Although acknowledging how far they had come,...
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Corporate Welfare
What is Corporate Welfare?
During the second half of the 1990s, in the midst of one of the most sustained periods of economic growth and prosperity in U.S. history, the federal government paid out approximately $125 billion per year to corporations. Advocates applauded these payments as promoting "economic development" or as evidence of "public-private partnership." Critics denounced them as "corporate welfare." From the debates involving this issue there emerged no consistent definition of "corporate welfare," although a commonly accepted one is "any action by local, state or federal government that gives a corporation or an entire industry a benefit not offered to others." These advantages can come in many forms: governments regularly extended significant tax breaks to corporations, for example, including deals that permitted them to pay only 25 percent of their assessed property taxes, granted them the right to make purchases without paying sales tax, and reduced or eliminated taxes on corporate profits. Governments extended partial tax immunity if companies located in certain areas and allowed executives to write off as business expenses some of their perquisites. Corporate welfare also came in the form of low-interest loans from municipalities and states at interest rates cheaper than banks charged. In addition, government funds were used to advertise products, build new factories, and...
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Global Economy
Implications of Globalization.
A small group of countries, principally those whose economic policies were integrated under the auspices of the Group of Seven (G7), played the leading role in the process of economic globalization. The overwhelming majority of nations, meanwhile, had to adapt to economic conditions shaped almost entirely without their participation. At the same time, globalization began to undercut the economic primacy of the nation-state. The power and influence of multinational corporations grew during the 1990s, so much so that they rather than nation-states became the driving force of globalization. Eight of the top twenty-five economic entities in the world, measured in terms of market value, were corporations. According to figures compiled for 1999, the economy of the United States continued to dominate the world, with a market value in U.S. dollars of $15.013 trillion. Japan ($4.244 trillion) was a distant second, followed by the United Kingdom ($2.775 trillion), France ($1.304 trillion), and Germany ($1.229 trillion). Seven U.S. companies and one Japanese company ranked in the top twenty-five. Microsoft occupied tenth place, with a market value of $546 billion. General Electric ($498 billion) was twelfth, ahead of Australia ($424 billion) and Spain ($390 billion), Cisco Systems ($355 billion) was fifteenth, leading Taiwan ($339 billion) and Sweden ($318 billion). Intel...
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The Internet
Dawn of the Internet Age.
In October 1969 two teams of computer scientists, one at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the other at the Bell laboratories in Menlo Park, California, linked computers over telephone lines to operate as a single system. The U.S. military had sponsored the research, seeking to establish a national communications network that would continue to operate even if part of the system were disabled or destroyed in a nuclear attack. Such was the genesis of the "Internet Age." During the 1990s the Internet became a force that transformed every aspect of life. Anyone with a computer, telephone, and modem literally had at their fingertips a staggering quantity and variety of information. As the decade drew to a close, the possibilities of the new technology seemed endless. Certainly the initial impact of the Internet has been profound, especially for business. Upstart on-line companies humbled corporations that once seemed unassailable. Financial markets became more accessible and efficient for those who wished to raise or invest money. Accessibility and efficiency, in fact, may be the lodestone and the polestar of the Internet. The Net broke down bureaucracies; challenged corporate, governmental, and intellectual orthodoxies; and, as some argue, encouraged a stronger sense of democracy and community. For good or ill, such developments have led to revolutions in...
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Love, Business, and the Law
The Discovery of Sexual Harassment.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s the concept of sexual harassment existed only in the mind of a young legal scholar named Catherine A. MacKinnon. By the 1990s MacKinnon had become a prominent law professor at the University of Michigan and 15,000 sexual harassment complaints were being filed annually with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Now it is impossible for even the most diligent of executives to stay current with the vast and diverse body of precedent and law that sexual harassment cases have generated. Few, though, can afford to ignore the numbers, such as the record $34 million payment that Mitsubishi Motor Corporation made in 1998 to settle an EEOC investigation of alleged harassment taking place at their plant in Normal, Illinois. The legal system has also disciplined companies for an apparently too rigid enforcement of sexual harassment policies. When the Miller Brewing Company fired a manager for telling his secretary about a lurid and salacious episode of Seinfeld, a jury awarded him $26 million in damages and lost wages and ordered the company to give him back his job. To avoid finding themselves, and placing their companies, in similar jeopardy on either side of this inflammatory issue, many executives and managers, such as those at Aerotek, a high-tech temp agency, simply adopted a policy that...
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Mergers and Monopolies
Merger Mania.
For three consecutive years, between 1995 and 1997, the value of mergers and acquisitions in the United States increased to record levels. Some 27,600 companies joined forces, more than in the entire decade of the 1980s. In 1999 even more companies hastened to unite into behemoth corporations created by the "merger mania."
Rockefeller's Revenge.
When in December 1998 Exxon and Mobil agreed to merge, pundits immediately labeled the $86.355 billion deal "Rockefeller's Revenge." Both companies originated as part of John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s Standard Oil monopoly, together accounting for more than half of the Standard Oil Trust until the Supreme Court disbanded it on 15 May 1911. In 1998 as well, Amoco, also a scion of Standard Oil, agreed to be purchased by British Petroleum (BP) for $55 billion. The following year, BP acquired the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO), another successor of Standard Oil, for $33.7 billion. Initially, the U.S. assets of BP derived in large measure from the absorption of another offspring of Standard Oil, Sohio. What the judiciary put asunder at the beginning of the twentieth century, entrepreneurs have been busy putting back together at its end. During the 1990s "Big Oil" got even bigger. Historical analogies, however, only go so far. At the zenith of its power, Standard Oil controlled 84 percent...
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Religion in the Workplace
Corporate Spirituality.
Since 1993 three hundred employees of the Xerox Corporation, from managers to clerks, have participated in "vision quests," a $400 million program designed to revolutionize product development. Alone for twenty-four hours in the New Mexico desert or the Catskill Mountains, workers communed with nature, seeking insights to help the struggling copier company. Many within and outside the company snickered and scoffed, but, says John F. Elter, the Xerox chief engineer who headed the project, "for almost everyone, this was a real spiritual experience." The outcome was one of the most surprising corporate success stories of the 1990s: the production of the 265DC, a 97 percent recyclable copier-fax-printer. Word of this venture attracted senior executives from companies as diverse as Ford Motors, Nike, and Harley-Davidson to Xerox design offices in Rochester, New York, in September 1999, not only to see the machine but also to discuss the program that inspired it. Executives of other companies, such as Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Wal-Mart, were also unashamedly bringing spirituality and/or religion into the workplace. If they had attempted to do so during the 1980s, they would have inspired ridicule, ostracism, and perhaps even a lawsuit. By the 1990s, however, a spiritual revival had swept corporate America as executives of all faiths mixed religion and management,...
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Small Business
Does Size Really Matter?
With multibillion-dollar corporate mergers dominating the business news throughout the 1990s, it is counterintuitive to think of small companies flourishing and prospering. Most did not; approximately three out of five (60 percent) small businesses begun in the decade failed. Those that did thrive were often the targets of corporate takeovers or buyouts. Yet, by the end of the decade, small businesses accounted for 99 percent of the 23.3 million nonfarm businesses in the United States, according to statistics compiled by the Small Business Administration (SBA). Sole proprietorships made up 16.7 million of these small businesses, while 1.6 million were partnerships and 5 million were corporations. The SBA noted that these figures were based on tax returns, so the number of sole proprietorships may be inflated by artists, freelance writers, and other self-employed persons who were not technically businesses. As of 1996, the last year for which complete statistics are available, small businesses employed 53 percent of the workforce in the private sector, made 47 percent of the sales, and accounted for 51 percent of the total private sector output. According to the Department of Labor, approximately 750,000 small businesses were created each year; about 10 percent, or 75,000, of them failed within the first ten to twelve months of operation. Those that succeed, however,...
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Me First!
In the wide open, freewheeling job market of the 1990s the mantra became "Me First!" Employers may have welcomed or lamented the newly emboldened U.S. workforce, but they accepted it as a fact of life. As the economy prospered the unemployment rate fell to less than 5 percent. With fewer workers entering the job market and competing for more jobs, prospective employees had greater leverage than they had enjoyed at any time since the 1960s. "In 35 years in the recruiting business I have never seen the equal of these times/' said Alan Schonberg, president and CEO of Management Recruiters International in Cleveland, Ohio, "This is the most pervasive, job-candidate-driven market possibly ever." A survey released in April 1997 by the American Management Association found that nearly half of the four hundred human-resources executives polled from medium and large companies said skilled workers were in short supply. Sixty-seven percent of the executives in mining, manufacturing, and construction, as well as business and professional services, predicted that the situation would intensify by the year 2000. Although few experts believed the hiring bonanza would last forever, virtually all agreed that it had already brought revolutionary changes to the workplace that will redefine work, and attitudes toward it, well into the twenty-first century. If the Great Depression of the 1930s produced...
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Headline Makers
Barad, Jill 1951-
No Goals.
Jill Elikann Barad's life was not always focused. Born in Queens, New York, Barad grew up in a creative household. Her father was a TV director and her mother, an artist and pianist. By the time she was in her teens, her life appeared dominated by show business and fashion. She tried college for three years, but then decided to take a job selling cosmetics. After a year she returned to school and got her degree in 1973. "I had no clue what I wanted to do. I just saw jobs as fun. I had no goals," she later admitted. She tried her hand at several jobs: modeling, acting, and as a traveling cosmetician-trainer for Coty Cosmetics. In 1979 she married Thomas K. Barad, an aspiring movie producer. The couple moved to Los Angeles. Soon after the birth of her first child, Barad landed a job in Mattel's novelty development unit in 1981. Her first project, "A Bad Case of Worms," flopped, but Barad's enthusiasm and energy got her noticed.
Fight for Your Point of View.
Soon Barad pushed for better assignments. Finally she was moved in 1985 to the Barbie Division as one of two product...
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Bezos, Jeff 1964-
Pioneering Spirit.
The Bezos family can trace its American roots to Colonel Robert Hall, who at the beginning of the nineteenth century moved to San Antonio, Texas, from his home in Tennessee. Bezos's great-great grandfather, Bernhardt Vesper, acquired a 25,000-acre ranch in Cotulla in the southern part of Texas, where young Jeffrey Preston Bezos spent summers with his grandparents. The pioneering spirit seems to be part of the family bloodline, even if the new frontier lies in cyberspace. Born on 12 January 1964, when his mother, Jackie Bezos, was only seventeen years old, Jeff Bezos never knew his father. "I've never been curious about him," he explains. "My real father is the guy who raised me." Yet another pioneer, Mike Bezos, a Cuban refugee who came to the United States by himself at the age of fifteen, married Jeff's mother and raised Jeff as his son.
Biggest Store on Earth.
Bezos had a simple ambition. He wanted to own and operate the biggest store on earth, one that sold everything from cars to food, "anything except firearms and certain live...
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Bible, Geoffrey C. 1937-
Formative Experiences.
Born in Australia in 1937, Geoffrey C, Bible worked his way up the corporate ranks and eventually became CEO of one of the largest U.S. tobacco firms. One of his most formative experiences, however, took place far from corporate headquarters. From 1959 to 1964 he lived among Palestinian refugees while working for a United Nations relief agency, an experience that left a deep and lasting impression. "I've seen a lot of misery in my life," he recalled in an interview with Business Week in 1998. "If you see these little toddlers with flies all over their eyes, a rag over them and nothing else in 100-degree heat, you sort of get a real taste of what hunger is." He joined Philip Morris in 1968. In charge of overseas tobacco operations between 1987 and 1990, Bible championed the acquisition of local cigarette companies in former communist countries, a bold but risky venture that paid off, enabling Philip Morris to command the tobacco markets throughout Eastern Europe. Named CEO in 1994, Bible by the end of the decade had spent thirty-one years with the company. He had intended to retire in 1997 but agreed to stay on to guide Philip Morris through the most tumultuous period in its history. Not inclined to respond passively to conflict and controversy, Bible has come out fighting, consistently aggressive not only...
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Buffett, Warren 1930-
The Oracle of Omaha.
Without a doubt Warren Edward Buffett is the greatest stock investor in modern times, and perhaps the most prescient oracle in the history of the stock market. If an individual had invested $10,000 in Berk-shire Hathaway when Buffett purchased a controlling interest in 1965, by 1999 that individual's portfolio would have been worth $51 million. Had that same individual invested $10,000 in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, their portfolio would have been worth a mere $497,431. Yet, Buffett has not added a major position to the stock portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway since amassing 4.3 percent of McDonald's Corporation in 1995. During the second half of the 1990s he transformed what had previously been a sideline at Berkshire Hathaway into a main focus: the acquisition of entire companies. Between 1996 and 1999 Berkshire Hathaway, located in Omaha, Nebraska, spent $27.3 billion to purchase seven companies in industries as diverse as aviation, fast food, and home furnishings. The effect was immediate and dramatic. The shift in emphasis transformed Berkshire Hathaway from a closed-end fund...
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Chenault, Ken 1951-
Man of Destiny.
Born in 1951 in New York City, Chenault, one of five children, was the second son of Hortenius and Anne Chenault. Coming of age during the Civil Rights era made its mark on the young Chenault. "My father's basic view was that you really needed to concentrate on the things you can control, and what you can control is your own performance." Chenault took his father's advice seriously. In school he demonstrated poise and leadership qualities that would later impress others as he moved through the corporate world. He studied at Bowdoin College and then enrolled in Harvard Law School. Still, Chenault admits that he was a late bloomer in school; the thought of studying business did not occur to him until he was in his twenties, after realizing that he did not want to practice law.
Trying Something New.
In 1981 Chenault accepted a job with American Express. Starting in the strategic planning department, Chenault advanced to vice president in charge of marketing, where he convinced company officials that the merchandise-services division, a foundering arm of the AmEx company, was...
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Cohen, Abby Joseph 1952-
Substance Over Style.
Born in Queens, New York, in 1952 to a Polish-immigrant mother and a father whose parents had come from Poland in 1913, Abby Joseph Cohen received a B.A. in economics and computer science from Cornell University in 1973 and an M.S. in economics from George Washington University in 1976. In 1973 she married David M. Cohen, director of labor and employee relations at Columbia University. Since 1983, when they moved back to New York from Baltimore, where Cohen had been working for T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., she and her family have lived in the same Queens neighborhood where Cohen grew up. She commutes to work on the bus. "We are not a Wall Street family," she says, "a Wall Street career is not the end-all and be-all for us." Cohen began her career in the mid 1970s as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., where she learned "to be flexible in my analysis and to look beneath the usual rules of thumb to the underlying dynamics." It is, indeed, the depth and extent of her research that set Cohen apart from other market analysts. Along with her colleague, Gabrielle U. Napalitano, Cohen rigorously examined every quarterly earnings report of every major company on the Standard & Poor's (S & P) 500 list. This task was labor-intensive and time-consuming, but Cohen...
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Gates, Bill 1955-
Critics' grievances notwithstanding, William Henry "Bill" Gates III has compiled an impressive resume. Born in 1955, Gates and his two sisters grew up in Seattle, the children of William Henry Gates II, an attorney, and Mary Gates, a schoolteacher, regent of the University of Washington, and chairwoman of United Way International. Gates began programming computers at the age of thirteen. In 1973 he entered Harvard University, where he developed the programming language BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) for the first microcomputer, the MITS Altair. In 1975, during his junior year, Gates left Harvard and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to head a company that he called "Microsoft." In 1978 the company, now spelled minus the hyphen, relocated to Seattle, Washington. As of 1999 the Microsoft Corporation, with a market value of $546 billion, was the wealthiest company and tenth largest economic entity in the world. For the fiscal year ending in June 1999, Microsoft posted revenues of $19.75 billion. Gates credits his own "foresight and vision regarding personal computing" as essential to the...
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Greenspan, Alan 1926-
Eclectic Talents, Diverse Careers.
Born in New York City on 6 March 1926, the son of a stockbroker and a retail salesclerk, Alan Greenspan early displayed impressive mathematical skills. In fact, many considered him something of a mathematical prodigy. After finishing high school, however, Greenspan enrolled in The Juilliard School and played saxophone and clarinet with a touring swing band during the 1940s. In 1945 Greenspan's musical career came to an end when he enrolled in New York University to study economics. He completed a B.A. in 1948, graduating summa cum laude, and earned an M.A. in 1950, He then entered the doctoral program at Columbia University. In the early 1950s Greenspan dropped out of Columbia and went to work for the National Industrial Conference Board (NICB). In 1977 NYU conferred his Ph.D. without requiring Greenspan to complete a dissertation. After leaving the NICB in 1954, Greenspan and bond-trader William Townsend founded Townsend-Greenspan & Company, Inc., a consulting firm that offered economic forecasts to corporations and banks. He served as...
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Welch, Jack 1935-
Shaken, Not Stirred.
At forty-five, John Francis "Jack" Welch was the youngest chief executive officer that the General Electric Corporation (GE) had ever had. When Welch took control of the company in December 1980, GE was the model American corporation. It was a juggernaut: conservative, staid, cautious, prudent, unexciting, and reliable. Its net income in 1980 was $1.7 billion, with a steady and healthy growth rate of 9 percent a year. Like most GE executives and CEOs, Welch was a company insider who had risen through the corporate ranks. No other corporation has been as successful at recruiting and nurturing talent from within or has managed to sustain such a consistent performance over such an extended period of time. Everyone anticipated that GE would continue to chart its smooth course once Welch took the helm. They could not have been more wrong. Welch had no plans of settling quietly into the executive suite. Steady but unspectacular progress, he believed, was no longer acceptable in the increasingly competitive economy. To the astonishment of all and the dismay of many, Welch shook up GE as the...
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People in the News
On 1 February 1992 Ron Carey was sworn in as the first Teamsters (International Brotherhood of Teamsters) president elected by the rank and file of the union.
In 1993 James Champy's and Michael Hammer's book, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for the Business Revolution was published; it quickly became the "downsizer's bible."
In April 1998 Robert L. Crandall retired as president of American Airlines; during his eighteen-year tenure the airlines initiated such innovations as frequent-flyer miles and super-saver fares.
In 1995 Millard S. Drexler took over the clothing chain Gap, Inc.; by 1999 he had turned the once-stagnant company around, posting profits around 30 percent above average, at a time when many retail stores were only averaging 5 percent above normal profits.
On 16 March 1992 Robert J. Eaton, head of the profitable European operations of General Motors Corporation, joined auto manufacturer Chrysler Corporation as successor to Chairman Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca.
In 1997 New Jersey businessman Charles F. Feeney reportedly had in the last decade given away more than $600 million to charity; another $3.5 billion, almost the entire sum of Feeney's estimated wealth, had also been turned over to his two charitable foundations....
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Carl Ally, 74, advertising executive whose aggressive style included naming rival companies in ads, 15 February 1999.
R. Stanton Avery, 90, businessman and inventor of the self-adhesive label that bear his name, 12 December 1997.
César Estrada Chavez, 66, labor activist, founder of the United Farmworkers of America, 23 April 1993.
Jack Kent Cooke, 84, owner of newspapers, sports teams, and television stations, 6 April 1997.
Max Factor Jr., 91, cosmetics mogul and inventor of the smudge-proof lipstick and waterproof mascara, 7 June 1996.
Avery Fisher, 87, founder of electronics company and philanthropist, 26 February 1994.
Julio R. Gallo, 83, cofounder and president of E & J Gallo Winery, one of the largest wineries in the world, 2 May 1993.
Harold Sydney Geneen, 87, British-born U.S. businessman who transformed ITT from a small company into an international conglomerate, 21 November 1997.
Thomas W. Gleason, 92, labor union officiai, former president of the International Longshoreman's Association, 24 December 1992.
Robert Klark Graham, 90, developer of plastic shatterproof eyeglasses, 13 February 1997.
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David Bach, Smart Women Finish Rich: 7 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams (New York: Broadway, 1999).
Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).
James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porris, Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (New York: HarperBusiness, 1994).
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989).
Diane Coyle, The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998).
Michael A. Cusumano and David B. Yoffie, Competing On Internet Time: Lessons From Netscape and Its Battle With Microsoft (New York: Free Press, 1998).
Bob Davis and David Wessel, Prosperity: The Coming Twenty-Year Boom and What It Means to You (New York: Times Business, 1998).
Philip Evans and Thomas S. Wurster, Blown To Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Business School Press, 2000).
Bill Gates and Collins Hemingway, Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous...
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Important Events in Business and the Economy, 1990–1999
- On January 1, 60 percent of U.S. women with children under age 6 work outside the home.
- On January 1, unions represented only 16 percent of 101 million U.S. workers.
- On January 2, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches a record high, closing at 2800.15.
- On January 10, Warner Communications and Time Inc. complete a $14.1 billion merger, establishing the world's largest media conglomerate.
- On January 31, McDonald's Corporation opens its first fast-food restaurant in Pushkin Square, Moscow.
- On February 13, Drexel Burnham Lambert declares bankruptcy in the largest securities company failure ever.
- In April, Congress raises the minimum wage to $3.80 per hour.
- On April 18, bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo, who earned notoriety for slashing jobs, pay and benefits throughout the airline industry, to leave Eastern Airlines.
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Member blogger Kathleen Bush talks with Jen Whiteside, who recently ran her first 5K after completing Midtown's Running Program with Certified Running Coach Missy Witte.
Jen Whiteside, one of the first graduates of Midtown's Running Program, never thought she could run.
Although active in myriad other fitness activities at the club, she felt her "bad knee" would prevent her from participating in impact sports.
Many miles and her first 5k race later, Jen is happy to say that she was mistaken. Thanks to the guidance of Certified Running Coach Missy Witte and her new running program, Jen is running 3-to-6 miles at a time, multiple days a week.
Shortly after beginning to train Jen, Missy recognized that Jen's "knee problem" was actually the result of an overly tight IT band, which Jen and Missy were able to correct using specific stretches, yoga, and strengthening exercises.
"Through this program, I was able to identify my problems and what I needed to do to fix them," said Jen.
Jen had such good things to say about Missy's program that two of her friends signed up, and they have also been thrilled with the results, and she's has nothing but wonderful experiences to share about training with Missy.
Motivational Missy Jen calls Missy "a little dog with a big bite." She credits Missy with not only being a friend but also knowing how to generate results. Jen points out the benefits of Missy's bubbly personality. "She was a great distraction during our first sessions," Jen said. "Because she talks a lot, I thought more about the conversation than the fact I was running."
Open Communication Missy provides individualized attention all week long, and not just during training sessions. "It's nice to have constant communication," said Jen. "If you text her a question, she gets right back to you. Sometimes I text her at 10pm, and I always receive a response first thing the next morning. When you're unsure about something, she always sends you something positive." After telling me this, Jen's phone beeps, and she smiles as it is yet another message from Missy.
Her First Race After training for several months with Missy, Jen was able to run a phenomenal time in her first road race, a 5k in Tampa, Florida. Despite the hot and muggy conditions, Jen kept a great pace and felt elated on crossing the finish line. She then took on the challenge of a longer race when she ran the Lilac 10k in May.
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"My husband says he can see the difference in me" Jen says. Jen, mother of two young children, is fit, toned, and looks great. She loves the change and variety that running has added to her workouts.
Just Do It If you're on the fence about signing up for Missy's Running Program, or if you're nervous you don't have what it takes to reach a running goal, Jen has this advice: "You need to go for it. Missy is awesome and she will help you identify where and what it is you want to do with the program, so it's structured and geared specifically for you, and not anybody else."
Jen has taken off running and never looked back.
For more information on Missy's Running Program, which can help you start running, train for your first race, or PR your 50th, contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or 461-2300, ext. 324.
Dane Robinson, a NASM-certified Personal Trainer & Performance-Enhancement Specialist at Midtown Athletic Club in Windy Hill, and an accomplished Arena Football League Player, takes over the blog today to talk about how to create a healthier margarita.
The margarita is a classic staple of the American summertime gathering.
When made correctly, it's a simple, three-ingredient drink that when consumed responsibly won't derail your health and fitness goals.
Unfortunately, grocery and liquor store shelves are stocked with unhealthy margarita products that are not only unnecessary, but also bad for your body.
Fortunately, it's quite easy to create a healthier margarita.
1. Lose the Cans
If your margarita-flavored drink comes in a can, chances are it contains bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical linked to serious health problems, such as cancer, birth defects, miscarriages, obesity, and a whole host of other diseases. Plus, consuming a margarita from anything other than its signature glass is just plain wrong.
2. Bypass the Bar Mix
While convenient, store-bought sour mixes are loaded with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is linked to diabetes, decreased liver function, and the growth of cancer cells. Recently, HFCS was also shown to decrease cognitive function following just six weeks of consumption.
3. Ditch the Dyes
If it's not organic, chances are those pre-made margarita mixes you see on store shelves contain food dyes, most notably Yellow #5 and Red #40. Derived from petroleum and linked to cancer and hyper-activity, food dyes are bad news.
4. Embrace Your Inner Bartender
You may think you need a mixology degree to make a mean margarita, but an authentic, chemical-free margarita is actually a breeze to make. Once you've assembled the ingredients, the only other things you need are a shaker and a dish for the optional coarse salt.
5. Create the Drink
The best and most healthful margarita is one made from organic ingredients whenever possible.
Here's how to do it:
Rub the rim of a margarita glass with a lime slice, and then dip the rim in coarse salt.
Add the following to a shaker:
1 1/2 ounces of tequila 1/2 an ounce of Triple Sec Juice from one large lime Coarse salt for rim of glass
Combine the ingredients, pour into the glass, and enjoy!
LPGA golfer Stacy Lewis' ability to overcome childhood scoliosis to become one of the game's rising stars is an inspiring story that hits home with Midtown Athletic Club in Windy Hill, Georgia member Heather McNally, a Coca-Cola Planning and Resource Management Director.
Diagnosed with scoliosis at age 10, Heather began to experience debilitating migraine headaches—often up to 20 times per month—in 2003.
But thanks to a connection made by a Chicago neurologist that directly linked Heather's migraines to scoliosis, along with a four-day-a-week fitness regimen at Midtown Athletic Club at Windy Hill, her monthly migraine toll is down to just a few each month.
In desperate search of relief for her headaches, McNally, 41, visited four Atlanta neurologists over an eight-year period. Her quest would eventually lead to Chicago, and her stepmom's recommendation of the Diamond Headache Clinic. It was here where a clinic doctor observed a direct connection between her scoliosis and headaches.
Heather's doctor in Atlanta had prescribed a drug given for epilepsy. While it reduced the migraines, the side effects were unbearable.
"I lost 10 percent of my body weight, my cognitive reasoning was weakened, and I had memory loss," she remembers. "Worst of all, the medication made carbonated beverages taste awful. And that's not good for a woman who works for Coca-Cola."
Her family coordinated an "intervention," insisting that she stop taking the drug. McNally did, but the migraines returned with a vengeance.
It was Diamond Headache Clinic's Alex Feoktistov, M.D., who finally asked the right question.
"He asked if my head hurt when I tilted my neck," McNally recalls. Tests would later help the doctor determine that McNally's headaches were actually caused by stiffness in her neck and upper back—and most likely aggravated by her scoliosis.
Says McNally: "This connection was something that all my doctors previously dismissed."
After talking with her personal trainers at Midtown Athletic Club at Windy Hill, McNally was provided with a four-day training regimen that has been working well. On Monday, for instance, it's Pilates; Tuesday is for strength training (including neck and shoulders); Wednesday is her day for physical therapy; and Thursday is for massage therapy at the club's spa.
Eight months into the program, Heather says that her migraines have virtually disappeared. Her back, she adds, is straighter than it has been in 30 years.
"We all know that physical activity is good for the body," says Dina Casso, Windy Hill's General Manager. "But for Heather, the results have been literally life-changing."
"Many members come to us not only to help them lose weight or firm up areas of their body, but also to help them with debilitating ailments," Casso adds. "We help by designing specific physical fitness programs to help provide our clients with a better quality of life."
McNally wholeheartedly agrees.
"For me, even my personality has changed," she says. "Not living in constant pain has made me a happier person. My family, friends and co-workers have all noticed. If it weren't for Dr. Feoktistov and my great team at Midtown, I can't imagine where I'd be today."
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A recent study published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture revealed that although junk food was found to be cheaper per calorie, healthy foods (foods from specific food groups whose nutritional values fell below a maximum amount of saturated fat, added sugars, and sodium) were cheaper by portion size and weight. In other words, it costs less to put healthy food on your plate than junk food when you adhere to serving sizes.
Here's an example. According to this Mark Bittman column, four "complete" meals from the leading fast food restaurant cost just under $30. But you can easily feed four-to-six people with a roast chicken, vegetables, salad, and milk for under $14. Choose a meal of rice and beans instead, and your total bill goes down about $5 more.
You might think, "that's all well and good, but it still feels like junk food is cheaper and easier to put on the table. Why is that, and what can I do about it?". In a country whose obesity-related medical expenses already cost $147 billion per year, that is one of the billion dollar questions.
The answer is complex. But that doesn't mean we're powerless.
Here are some steps we can take now to curb the ever-widening effects of our "junk food" culture:
Ignore Manipulative Food Marketing: Fast food companies alone spent $4.2 billion on marketing in 2009, and the Food and Beverage industry as a whole has done a pretty good job convincing consumers that the foods they sell are cheap, convenient, and tasty.
It's important to recognize that the tactics used are just that – ways of enticing you to buy products. Their bottom line doesn't care if you enjoyed your burger after you bought it, or if it caused you to gain weight. But, your body cares, and who would you rather listen to?
Banish the Fast-Food Habit: Sixty years ago food was less plentiful and more expensive than it is today. Now, in part because of the overabundance of food, Americans dine out about five times per week. We have to reverse this trend. Our bodies do not need large portions of oil-saturated foods, a staple in many fast food restaurants.
We can also get more comfortable saying "no" to our kids, who sadly, are unfair targets of manipulative marketing. We need to show them that grilled chicken and potatoes can taste just as good as chicken nuggets and fries.
Know Your Options: Healthy food can be cheap and convenient too; it just takes a little more knowledge and forethought than ordering a Value Meal. The cost of organic produce and $5 loaves of hearty whole-grain bread (vs. $2 white loaves) can be discouraging, but buying store brands and in-season produce, and taking advantage of coupons and sales can help keep costs low.
Embrace substitutions. Less expensive, conventionally grown foods can still be healthy, and brown rice is an alternative whole grain that costs under $1 per bag. Take 10 minutes to plan your trip to the store, and you can be in and out in less time than it would take for you to wait in a drive-thru line. Plus, you'll have a smaller tab!
Get Cooking: Americans are watching more cooking shows, but spending less time in the kitchen. What's wrong with this picture? There is a misconception that cooking takes lots of time and skill. Stock "staple" items, such as rice and beans, chicken breasts (which freeze well), and spices. Also, invest in a good knife and large cutting board, and use the Internet to find healthy and easy recipes you can prepare in 15-minutes or less.
If you have time to watch your favorite TV show, you have 15 minutes to prepare dinner for your family. Try it for a month and see if your bills and your belt stay a little tighter.
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We don't like to hear that healthy food is cheaper than junk food because it gives us one less excuse to eat junk. While it's easy to go out and eat 5,000+ calories a day, our bodies simply can't handle that lifestyle, even with exercise. Our choices impact the quality of our lives, and it's up to us to embrace a healthier lifestyle that doesn't include junk food products.
Do you think it's possible to eat healthy on a budget? What challenges have you faced in providing healthy meals for your family, and how have you overcome them?


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Spring has sprung and all of a sudden the air is warmer, the windows flung open, the breeze is fresher and people are happier. Nice! Spring heralds the arrival of all kinds of new produce at your local market. And it means that all those delicious Summer treats are not so far away either. Thank goodness.
As much as I love rugging up and cozying down in Winter, it's pretty nice to be able to wriggle your toes without chilblains forming, and even nicer to have a bit of a rethink in the foodie department, making room for some healthy, crunchy or colourful recipes. Yum.
Here's a selection of super delicious ideas, to revamp your table this week. Serve these on their own with some bread and a chilly glass of something cheeky, or plonk them alongside some grilled chicken or a piece of fish or some nicely seared steak. Win!
Are you hungry? Are you into vegetables? Do you have any recipes to share?!
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What's included in my admission price? What does my admission fee pay for? Where and what is White River Gardens? Are the Zoo and Gardens open on holidays? Are discounts available? I'm a member at another zoo. Do I get in for free? Can I bring a cooler/food and beverages into the Zoo? Can we leave to eat lunch and then return? Do you rent strollers/wheelchairs/electric carts? Are the Zoo and Gardens accessible to people with disabilities? Is that poison ivy I see all over Zoo grounds? Are all animals on exhibit at all times? Can we bring our dog with us to the Zoo? Can I park at the Zoo if I'm not planning to go in? I'm planning to stay overnight in Indianapolis. What hotels are nearby? Do you have gift cards? How do I request a donation from the Zoo?
Your admission includes full access to the Indianapolis Zoo and White River Gardens. This includes our keepers chats, demonstrations and shows, like the daily Coca Cola Dolphin Adventure Shows (requires a free ticket that you can get at the gate). You can also enjoy the Kroger Splash Park and Family Fitness Park presented by Community Health Network. Any public, non-fundraising events held at the Zoo, like Zoopolis 500, summer concerts, ZooBoo and Christmas at the Zoo, are also included. Not included with your admission would be things like animal feedings, rides, concessions and admission to fundraising events like Zoobilation. Find more information on admission prices.
The Indianapolis Zoo receives virtually no tax supported revenue, so we must raise all our own operating costs and the funds that support our renowned animal conservation mission. Many different sources of income are all important to us, including your admission cost, memberships, donations, grants, and fundraising events. As a 501C3 non-profit, be assured that your money is going to support a great cause!
White River Gardens is a botanic garden that is part of the Indianapolis Zoo. It is located adjacent to the Zoo and shares the same entrance and parking lot. The Gardens features three acres of beautiful outdoor gardens as well as the Hilbert Conservatory to both enjoy and inspire gardeners with ideas.
During the warmer months, the Zoo is open daily, including Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day. The Zoo will be closed the day of Zoobilation, however, which is always the second Friday in June. When the weather gets cooler, we will reduce our hours but we try to stay open as much as possible. We are closed Mondays and Tuesdays November-February as well as for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Find more information on operating hours.
We offer a 20 percent discount to all current and former members of the military. AAA members also receive a 10 percent discount. To receive these discounts, you must bring a valid ID, and it's good for up to four people. If you're looking to save money and you're planning to visit the Zoo or Gardens more than once this year, a membership is your best value. We have several membership levels to help meet your needs. Find more information about memberships.
While we cannot honor memberships with other zoos and attractions, we will offer a 10 percent discount to members of other AZA accredited zoos, with a valid membership card. The discount is good for up to four people.
For health and safety reasons, we do not allow coolers to be carried into the Zoo. We also don't food or drinks with disposable lids and straws. You can carry in reusable water bottles and we do sell refillable cups that you can bring back and use multiple times for a small fee.
Zoo admission is good for a full day, and you are more than welcome to go out of the Zoo to eat. Many of our guests simply leave food items in their vehicles to retrieve quickly at lunch time then return to the Zoo after they've eaten. You just need to get hand stamps as you exit or save your receipt to re-enter when you're ready. We have multiple picnic areas in the Zoo's Entry Plaza where you can bring snacks or a lunch to enjoy. Picnic table seating is first come, first serve.
For a small fee, you can rent single strollers, double strollers and electric carts for the day. These items are available first come, first serve, and we do not take reservations. The rental area is located just inside the gate. Find more information on rentals.
Both the Indianapolis Zoo and White River Gardens are fully wheelchair accessible. Ramps are available at all our attractions, including the platform for giraffe feedings presented by Meijer and leading into the Marsh Dolphin Theater and Underwater Dolphin Dome. At the Gardens, look for ramps into the Schaefer Rotunda and from the Rotunda up to the main floor. We also have an elevator near the steps to the Hulman Riverhouse that takes visitors up to the mezzanine level in the Hilbert Conservatory. Find more information about services for people with disabilities.
It's actually Virginia creeper, which can sometimes be confused with poison ivy. Both have palmate compound leaves, but Virginia creeper has five leaflets, while poison ivy has only three. Hence the old adage: leaves of three, let it be!
The majority of animals will be out on a given day. Because we are dealing with animals whose schedules can change daily, we cannot guarantee that any particular animal will be on exhibit when guests arrive. Animals sometimes have to go off exhibit for routine health checks or when their enclosures are undergoing maintenance. The number of animals on exhibit is also subject to change based on the season. However, our keepers do their best to have the animals out on exhibit as much as possible, including rotating animals in and out throughout the day.
To ensure the health and safety of our animals, pets are not allowed on Zoo grounds. We do make an exception for service animals.
If you're planning a day in downtown Indianapolis and you don't know where to park, you can use our lot. However, our parking booths open at 8:30am and if you arrive during Zoo hours, you'll have to pay to park. And just a friendly reminder to lock your vehicle.
There are plenty of great hotels in the area. We partner with many hotels to offer packages that include discounts on Zoo admission tickets. Depending on how long you plan to stay, we also offer a Family Fun Adventure Package that includes four tickets to the Zoo, four tickets to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis and an overnight stay at a participating hotel. Find more information about hotel accommodations.
We offer presale tickets, which you can buy online, or you can purchase memberships as a gift. Memberships are available at many different levels. Find more information about memberships.
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- Five new species of the genus Cotycicuiara Galileo and Martins are described and illustrated: C. oicepe sp. nov., from Trinidad and Tobago; and from Brazil C. multicava sp. nov., (Minas Gerais); C. pertusa sp. nov., (Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina); C. nivaria sp. nov., (Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo); C. chionea sp. nov., (Rio de Janeiro). A revised key to species is provided.
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- An updated checklist of the Cerambycidae of Costa Rica is presented. This new version includes 1,071 species and subspecies in 429 genera, 69 tribes, and six subfamilies. Of these, 181 are new country records and 136 species are known only from Costa Rica. In addition, provincial distribution data are provided for each species. The checklist supports a wealth of scientific literature in many other groups of flora and fauna indicating Costa Rica has high species richness of cerambycid beetles.


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The Barnett Shale is more than 7,000 feet below the surface and is comprised of dense non-permeable rock. According to Dr. Ken Morgan, a geologist at Texas Christian University, "Solid hard rocks that are 7000 feet down don't subside. You have more than a mile of solid rock that holds it all up. Subsidence occurs when you have loose, soft materials like in Houston (sands, clays, etc.) but not in cemented hard rocks like the Barnett Shale."
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Natural gas is a cleaner burning energy source than other fossil fuels. Its use is becoming increasingly popular as an alternative fuel. Natural gas is used for heating, generating electricity and as a transportation fuel. However, it is also a raw material used in things such as plastics, medicines, fertilizers and dyes. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 22 percent of energy consumption in America comes from natural gas. Because natural gas is plentiful in the U.S., using natural gas over oil may help reduce our dependence on foreign energy sources. (source: Department of Energy)
When natural gas comes out of the ground, it is a mixture of gases and other substances, being predominantly methane. The natural gas that consumers use is made almost entirely of methane. Raw natural gas is produced from natural gas wells, oil wells or condensate wells.
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6. The film might provide an interesting glimpse into the mystique of the Bad Boy empire during its heyday (Bad Boy went from making history with B.I.G. to 'making the mess band' with Danity Kane…WTF?)
5. There hasn't been this much buzz in the Hip-Hop community about a film since Hype Williams' BELLY. (No sequel please.)
4. Today's Hip-Hop generation will finally have a film to call their own, adding to past classic flicks about/influenced by Hip-Hop music and culture (Breakin' I and II, Wild Style, Krush Groove, Beat Street, etc.)
3. It's authentic. Starring Brooklyn's own Gravy plus having cats like DJ Enuff, D-Dot, Lil' Cease and Money L appear in the film lends much credibility to "NOTORIOUS".
2. Lil' Kim's discontent with the film could possibly be the motivation for her to write her own book or movie. Don't front, Kim would cake off at the box office.
1. And finally, a Biggie Smalls biopic could possibly greenlight a Tupac Shakur biopic. Now what true Hip-Hop fan wouldn't want to see that?
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When Vice President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Robert Gates advised President Barack Obama in late April 2011 that sending a Navy SEAL team into Pakistan to capture or kill Osama bin Laden was not worth the various risks that this operation entailed, John Brennan, the president's top counterterrorism adviser, urged the president to authorize the raid.
It's that kind of call that has made Brennan the president's go-to guy since the beginning of Obama's first term on all matters related to terrorism and has also thrust him into a broader policymaking role in the Middle East and in South Asia.
From his windowless office deep in the bowels of the West Wing a few steps from the Situation Room, Brennan has been at the center of every important decision in the war against al Qaeda.
Brennan is a serious, taciturn man who grew up in New Jersey and attended Fordham University in New York, where at one point he contemplated becoming a priest. Instead, he joined the CIA and spent more than two decades in the shadows, rising to take on important positions such as Bill Clinton's intelligence briefer and CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia.
Three years after 9/11, Brennan became the first director of the National Counterterrorism Center, which shapes overall strategy against al Qaeda and its allies across the 16 agencies of the U.S. intelligence community.
After he retired, Brennan went into the private sector, where he played an early role in advising the Obama campaign in the run-up to the 2008 election.
It's this long history with Obama and his depth of experience in the intelligence community that have made Brennan the president's pick to run the CIA.
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On Thursday, Brennan will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a milestone on the road to what is shaping up to be a contentious confirmation to be CIA director.
At his confirmation hearing, Brennan will be asked some tough questions about the administration's policies on CIA drone strikes, policies that he has played a key role in formulating.
Taking even the most conservative estimate of casualties during Brennan's time as Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have killed 1,577 people, 143 of whom were identified in credible news reports as civilians, according to a count by the New America Foundation.
Brennan will also likely be asked to discuss the still-classified Senate Intelligence Committee's three-year investigation into the CIA detainee program and the extent to which coercive interrogations of some of those CIA-held prisoners elicited useful information.
The head of the committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, has said that coercive interrogations did not provide key leads in tracking down bin Laden, while a number of retired senior CIA officials have claimed that they did.
Undoubtedly, this discrepancy will be something that the committee will want to delve into with Brennan.
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Perhaps more than any other official, he played a key role in what has surely been the Obama administration's greatest success overseas: tracking bin Laden to an obscure city in Pakistan and then formulating the overall plan that led to the death of al Qaeda's leader.
In August 2010, CIA Director Leon Panetta went to the White House to brief the president and a handful of his top national security advisers, including Brennan, that the CIA had a promising lead that suggested bin Laden could be living in a compound in the northern city of Abbottabad.
The case that bin Laden was living there was entirely circumstantial and was based on the fact that residing at the Abbottabad compound was a longtime al Qaeda insider and that he and the other people living in the compound were taking elaborate measures to deceive their neighbors about their identities.
One of the mysterious residents at the compound was a man who never left the compound's grounds and could be seen by U.S. satellites occasionally taking a quick walk in the garden. He would come to be nicknamed "the pacer." However, the CIA could never get a photograph of the pacer's face, nor was there any other definitive intelligence that bin Laden was living at the compound.
Brennan, who had spent almost all of his working life at the CIA, met regularly with the analysts working on the bin Laden case. According to senior White House officials, Brennan pushed the analysts to come up with intelligence that disproved the notion that bin Laden was living in the Abbottabad compound, explaining, "I'm tired of hearing why everything you say confirms your case. What we need to look for are the things that tell us what's not right about our theory. So what's not right about your inferences?"
The analysts working on the bin Laden hunt came back to the White House one day and started their intelligence update, saying, "Looks like there's a dog on the compound."
Denis McDonough, Obama's then-deputy national security adviser, remembers thinking, "Oh, that's a bummer. You know, no self-respecting Muslim's gonna have a dog." (Many Muslims believe dogs to be "unclean.")
Brennan, who had spent much of his career focused on the Middle East and speaks Arabic, pointed out that bin Laden, in fact, did have dogs when he was living in Sudan in the mid-1990s. (Indeed, when al Qaeda's leader was living in the capital of Khartoum, he had taken an interest in training police dogs.)
Creation of the "Red Team"
In addition to pushing the CIA to refine its analysis of the case that bin Laden was living in Abbottabad, two weeks before Obama made the final decision to launch the Navy SEAL raid, Brennan authorized the formation of a "Red Team." It was made up of four intelligence analysts who had had no prior role in making the case that bin Laden was living in Abbottabad.


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When the Bruins traded Hannu Toivonen to the St. Louis Blues in July of 2007, the piece they got back in return came with a couple of question marks. The uncertainty surrounding the then 21-year-old Carl Soderberg - the player the B's received for the underachieving goalie - was warranted. Soderberg was a forward with good size, but also with questions surrounding his mental makeup, and he was coming off of an eye injury. "Here's a player they had very high expectations for," Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli said at the time of the trade. "He may turn into maybe not an elite player but a very good player. There were times when he dominated the world juniors when he was playing." Just as importantly was the fact that Soderberg may not even play in North America. The final concern came to be, as Soderberg has played his entire professional career in his native Sweden.
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1) Driver
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3) 5 Fairway Wood
4) Irons (Just the swing weight)
5) Wedges (Just the swing weight)
6) Putter (Just the swing weight)
Yes, I know different for different people but I just wanted to find out the average.
The analogy about light and heavy objects swung at the same speed will generate the same force is totally incorrect. eg. If you swing a feather at 100 mph and try to hit a golf ball it goes no where.
If you swing a 1 pound weight 100 mph then you will have muchhhhh more force.
Also feeling the club head by making it heavier allows the body weight to be in sync with the club movement.
The distance a golfer hits the golf ball is based on his synchronization of the body weight and club head at impact.
If you hit with your hands only and no weight transfer, the ball will go rather short distance.If you get the right timing of body weight and the club head the ball will travel forever.
That is why some relative small people hit the ball a long way while some big people cannot get a lot of distance.
OK so I'm going to step in to the fray here a lil bit. Lets start by getting a common understanding of some of what we're talking about. The OP was talking about swing weight and swing weight is measure of tourque NOT at the club head nor at the Center of mass of the club but at an arbirtary weight determined by some guy. Swingweight is the force required to over come the inertia of the COM of the entire club. if you increase the swing weight. you are moving the center of Mas of the entire club closer to the club head. I think everyone would agree.
Since golf and tennis is a sport where power delivered through kinetic sequencing. A club that is too light, will force a slower swing speed because you couldn't make contact, a club that is too heavy would slow swing speed because you couldn't make contact. When you increase the swing weight you increase the mass of the head of the hammer and provided that you can keep the club moving at same speed the ball will go FURTHER because it has more momentum and move velocity. So if you can control a heavier club and hold all things equal you're gonna increase your distance.
I recently moved my irons to D8 and I ca swing with more control and the same head speed and picked up 15 yards.
The analogy about light and heavy objects swung at the same speed will generate the same force is totally incorrect. eg. If you swing a feather at 100 mph and try to hit a golf ball it goes no where. If you swing a 1 pound weight 100 mph then you will have muchhhhh more force.
100 pounds of cotton swung at 100 MPH isn't going to send the ball as far as 1 pound of steel swung at 100 MPH either.
There are a lot of factors to consider when you want to think about the weight of a club.
Obviously, the heavier a club the slower (with the same effort) you'll swing it. Solidity (of conrtact) matters too.
weight x speed = power on tennis rq. if you want power use less string tension that equals more stored energy more control use more tension , lighter weight. on a club or racket helps those out that cannot control ( because of skill or strength ) the swing , higher weight. in the same size transfers more stored energy - imho


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Both consumer' and health care professionals are beginning to tap into mobile digital health, one of the hottest health trends for 2012. The majority of us use a mobile phone, and many of us are using mobile devices to access health information on line. The mobile health care market alone is poised for explosive growth and could be worth over a billion pounds by the end of 2014. The World Health Organisation finds that 83% out of 122 countries surveyed use mobile phone technology for services that include free emergency calls, text messaging with appointment and pill reminders, health education information and transmission of diagnoses, tests and lab results.
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