Word: catching
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...earn 25% to 40% less than other white-collar professionals. While Frederica Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in a Bronx, N.Y., school district, she is aware of the price she paid for leaving American Express in 1992. "It has taken me eight years," she reports, "to catch up to the $52,000 I was making as a financial planner...
...done as carefully as growing a prizewinning rose. Joe Biden of Delaware, the committee's savvy senior Democrat, last year got Helms to agree to allow the U.S. to pay $926 million of its arrears to the U.N., an organization Helms has reviled. But there was a catch: Helms insisted on U.N. policy changes that are still holding up the bulk of the payments. Before Holbrooke was sworn in, Helms asked the White House to appoint an alternate U.N. delegate: Irwin Belk, a feisty North Carolina buddy who heads a department-store chain. Clinton agreed, and Belk, who turned...
...other battle, Microsoft is working to establish its new Pocket PC operating system as the standard for wireless, though it has a long way to go to catch up with Palm's dominant OS--the Windows of the handheld world. Early evaluations of Microsoft's Pocket PC say it's good but not likely to be the "Palm killer" some were expecting. There's also a joint venture of the software firm Psion, Nokia, Ericsson, Japan's Matsushita and Motorola called Symbian that was designed to keep Microsoft at bay. Although there have been some cracks in the alliance--Ericsson...
...first ABC-Bunim/Murray series, Making the Band, which created, then chronicled the life of a boy band, did dismally and was pulled. (It returns for a summer run Friday.) But Survivor or Big Brother could be on the schedule next season should either catch fire, Moonves says...
Microsoft has been very effective at playing catch-up in new markets created by innovators and then using whatever tactics necessary (legal or not) to eliminate competition. Gates likes to paint himself as a techno-genius, but he's actually just the bully who got fat eating the real geniuses' lunches. CHRIS ELLENS Nepean, Ont. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door--including the trustbusters. D. JEAN HAYES Northampton, Mass...