Word: productive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would-be acquirers to be prepared for an increase in expenditures beyond the price of the acquisition. Says Zimmerman: "You'll want to improve the [acquired] company because it's now your property. So you'll probably want to buy more equipment or expand distribution or develop a new product. These are all expensive things...
Food for 121,124,031 families of four for a year in the U.S. 588 Space Shuttles 12 Bill Gateses 62.5 billion School Library Books Health Insurance for 44 million Americans for 10 years $3,664.50 for every man, woman and child in the U.S. Texas (gross state product $600 billion) and Illinois (GSP $400 billion...
...said Microsoft unfairly took advantage of the existing popularity of its product by forcing computer manufacturers to leave the startup sequence unchanged and load Microsoft Internet Explorer on their computers...
Thus in the U.S., Nintendo had all the Pokemon pieces to play with--a fully extended product line of games, toys, comic books and cards to appeal to boys and girls from ages 4 to 15. Says Tilden: "We decided to make an all-out effort to repeat the phenomenon in the Western world." An additional part of the strategy, says Kubo, was to hide its "Japan-ness." Nintendo of America and its Japanese partners brought in Al Kahn, who developed the Cabbage Patch doll, to help with toy merchandising. "There's a little bit of magic in what Nintendo...
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com describes the perfect online shopping experience as launching your browser and finding on the screen the exact item you want--which you may not have even known you wanted until that very moment. "One product," he says, "with one button. And you click on it, and it is sent to you and improves the quality of your life...