Word: investment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which President Clinton promised Tuesday to press for ?- may help the U.S. reclaim its natural leadership role in the organization, but it won?t be enough. If the U.N. is to be effective in dealing with the multiple international dangers of the next century, Washington will have to invest some political capital...
...need grows, where are the workers to come from? If we want good care for our parents (and ourselves soon enough), we're going to have to pay for it. Instead of blowing the budget surplus on a big tax cut, we should find ways to invest in those who care for our vulnerable elders. Providing decent pay, training and benefits would be a start. JUDITH B. CLINCO, R.N., B.S. Catalina In-Home Services Inc. Tucson, Ariz...
Traditionally frugal in its approach, the University is now beginning to invest in you. Don't look for big changes immediately, but appreciate the shift in attitude. Administrators are saving less for a rainy day and giving more back to current students...
...basic, how come most of us are about as familiar with it as we are with life on Mars? Steve Jurvetson, a partner in Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson who has invested in FastParts, an electronics trading exchange, and Sonnet Financial, an online foreign exchange, calls B2B "the iceberg waiting to emerge." "Most people," Jurvetson says, "understand the business-to-consumer market because they are consumers themselves. It's kind of like the Beardstown Ladies' investment protocol: use a product, come to understand it and then invest in it. With business-to-business, though, unless...
...vice president of corporate procurement. The company believed that a competitor planned to build a semiconductor-manufacturing plant (also known as a fabrication plant) on its premises, thereby reducing product-development time by half. "We needed to compete or we would get killed," says Marciel. Adaptec couldn't invest the time or money in building its own plant (which on average costs $1.3 billion and requires more than a year to complete), so the company focused on cutting the fat from the communications and ordering processes used with its overseas strategic partners. The system, says Marciel, was built...