Word: catching
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Then I went home. I was sorry to leave the Emerald Isle, but also, in truth, eager to catch up on e-mail and the web, newspapers and magazines, television and videos. No matter what Seamus Heaney says, a bog's communication, information and entertainment options leave something to be desired. I was ready for home...
This could be a good weekend for the markets to catch their breath. Skittish after a wild week and tentative heading into a holiday, investors are nonetheless armed with some of the news they've been waiting for: The economy is cooling off and Alan Greenspan might be too. After hearing Thursday that rising mortgage rates were finally cutting into home sales, rate-hike-weary investors got more good news Friday: Orders for durable goods like refrigerators and airplanes, which tend to rise when people are feeling wealthy enough for big-ticket purchases, dropped precipitously in April, with savings...
Eliot led the pack in recycling, took the bronze in waste reduction, but finished next-to-last in power reduction--consistently our worst event. A decent showing overall, but not nearly enough to catch the upstart squad from Dunster...
Such technological marvels set the stage for continued U.S. military hegemony well into the 21st century, so long as the nation's troops--and their leaders--remain state-of-the-art as well. Meanwhile, the rest of the world will keep trying to play catch...
...picture as the world's largest business 10 years from now, maybe even 20? Wal-Mart. It's been growing around 20% a year, and while extrapolation is always hazardous, if you're at $200 billion a year, growing 20% annually--or even 10%--you are extremely hard to catch. Wal-Mart is expanding aggressively around the world, as it must. Most important, it owns by far the most advanced back-end infotech system--for managing inventory, logistics, working capital, customer data--in retailing. Most people wouldn't suspect it, but Wal-Mart is one of the world's most...