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...buzz of boardrooms, power lunches and anxious phone calls from the freeway. It was debated by stockbrokers, real estate agents, Hollywood producers and media Bigfeet. Mid-level executives who wouldn't leave home without a phone in their pocket -- or at their ear -- were putting off calls or finding other ways to make them. Sales of cellular radio telephones -- which had been growing at a sizzling 20% to 70% a year for the past decade -- were temporarily put on hold...
...director of Clinton's service initiative, was a featured speaker at the youth town meeting in Washington. But either the audience was turned off by his platitudes ("The Washington Post says we can't afford to do national service.") or they just didn't care. In any case, a buzz of chatter filled the hall. A teacher who had come with a group of students leaned over to me, complaining, "They aren't listening." The crowd came alive, however, to talk about the L.A. riots and foreign policy...
...Crying Game has filled it. The picture, shot for a skimpy $5 million, won a Golden Globe nomination for best drama and is a smart-money long shot at Oscar time. But Irish writer-director Neil Jordan, 42, didn't set out to make a bundle, or even a buzz. "I just decided to do what pleases me," he says. "When a film deals with issues of race, terrorism and sex, it would be mangled if backed by a U.S. studio. Maybe no one was going to finance this movie, but that was the reason...
...Today's buzz word is "commonization," or sharing parts among old and new models, even among different carmakers. Honda is out in front in that race with its new Domani, a small family car that is 60% built with parts also used in other Honda models; previously the shared-component segment amounted to 10% to 15%. The carmakers are also considering a method already used by truck manufacturers: standardization of certain components, which allows parts companies to cut their prices. Zexel, a major high-tech partsmaker based in Tokyo, expects to get seven manufacturers to agree to a common fuel...
...basic premise of "Green Lights" is to switch all of the light sources at a given site from the kilowatt-crunching fixtures of the present to more energy-efficient versions of the fluorescent bulb. Fine reports that these bulbs "don't flicker or buzz" as do the vast majority of fluorescents now in use on campus. In addition to saving up to 35 percent of normal energy use, these newer bulbs last for up to 10 years, according to information distributed...