Word: blue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Calif., is the garlic center of the globe. Waterbury, Conn., boasts that it is the Brass Capital of the World. But, in truth, Harvard students don t care much about anything besides themselves. No problem. Meet Folcraft, Pa., the sleepy Philadelphia suburb that proudly proclaims itself >=Home of the Blue Book,=We [representatives from the paper company] bowled in this league and this guy asked us if we made blue books. He brought one in and showed us.=Home of the Blue Book.=We make aem. That s why we re the home.=no downlines,<= on which pink margin lines...
...have been more effective at illustrating the hypocrisy of certain Congressmen. But now that the trial is over and the verdict is in, our nation's bout with Sexual McCarthyism has come to a close and should stay that way. Far too much effort has been devoted to cigars, blue dresses and defining the word "is" Finally more grave issues such as NATO's attacks on Serbia and our three prisoners of war have dominated headlines, news and conversations. Enough is enough...
...least for IBM it is. What an astonishing statement from the head of the company that created the PC industry! But last week Big Blue announced that it lost a billion dollars on PCs in 1998. Gerstner believes the future is in networks and servers, both IBM strongholds...
...recalls, "it started raining. We got on the bus, and everyone was so tired, they dozed off. Except for me; I'm an insomniac. I was listening to Rachmaninoff and staring out the window. The black clouds were rolling, but at the end of the horizon a strip of blue showed up, then a rainbow. It was very intense--strong and beautiful, like a gate to heaven. I woke everybody up, and we got it in the movie. So seldom do you see beauty face to face. It was all worth it for that...
...repeat after me: No stock is bulletproof. Not GE. Not Big Blue. Not Ma Bell. Not [your company here]. Some are less vulnerable. But shifting consumer tastes and new technologies can devastate any company any time. No one understands that better than highly paid executives--unless it's the financial firms that advise them...