Word: fasters
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...varsity] has been getting faster and faster every week," Todd said. "Finishing four seconds behind Yale in our California race gave us some motivation for the rest of the season. We have been picking up boat speed and hope to be able to catch them by the end of the year...
Indians have relied for venture capital on their own financial institutions, which tend to focus conservatively on balance sheets and which make decisions by committee. ICF and similar funds are making a persuasive case for being faster off the mark and more forward-thinking. "What ICF does is take the core of an idea and try to grow it big by marrying it with high-quality international players. Our idea of a committee meeting is making a phone call and taking a quick decision," Angadi boasts. Adds Prouty: "ICF funds come from some of the U.S.'s most successful investment...
...Internet has grown from a $5 billion business five years ago to a $500 billion one today, with annual growth rates of 50%. And in some sense, Cisco is the beneficiary of a virtuous cycle, so to speak, in which the very innovations that make its own products faster and increase the supply of bandwidth also supercharge demand for bandwidth, as faster computers mean we will want to download more video, more music and more of everything--all through Cisco-powered networks. "The user is the slowest link in the chain," says Varian. "We're limited by our biological perception...
Score one for private enterprise. Two years ago, Craig Venter drew a rousing chorus of harrumphs (and a few "yeah, rights") from government scientists when he said that his genetics research firm, Celera Genomics, could map the human genome three times faster than the feds and at a fraction of the cost. The Human Genome Project, after all, is one of the most closely watched federal science projects of recent memory. In the abstract it stands to become one of the great scientific breakthroughs by promising to crack nature's code for what makes us who we are - and, presumably...
...expansion is a bit of a paper tiger. The economy grew 4.1% last year and even faster in 1998, yet aside from oil prices there has been no inflation to speak of. Meanwhile, amid all the angst about overheating, there are signs of a slowdown, most noticeably in the crucial housing sector. The dollar is in fine shape. And while rising oil prices have skewed the Consumer Price Index to a three-year high, the core rate is up a very modest 2.1% for the past 12 months...