Word: productive
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...PRODUCT A thin gold necklace with a gaudy monogrammed nameplate...
...estimate of civil rights attorney Penda Hair of the Washington-based Advancement Project, "hundreds, maybe thousands" of votes were affected, more than enough to have swung a razor-thin election. Whether all this was the result of a racist plot or a by-product of insensitive police work and the incompetence of precinct workers remains to be investigated by the Justice Department. But in a sense, any skulduggery the feds discover will be beside the point, a mere footnote to the triumphant story of how this year the black vote came of age, thanks largely to Jesse Jackson. Lord knows...
While it helps to be sitting on some of the best grape-growing land in Tuscany, Frescobaldi's successes--and its ambitious plans--are just as much the product of modern management, led by chief operating officer Giovanni Geddes da Filicaja, 55, the first executive from outside the family. When he joined the firm in 1995, Geddes brought his experience as CEO of the Italian subsidiary of Remy-Cointreau and COO of Antinori wines, one of Frescobaldi's toughest competitors. "Giovanni brought a more professional mentality," says patriarch and chairman Vittorio Frescobaldi, 70, with a laugh. "We needed to change...
...course, the overall cost (which includes upgrades) might be reasonable. Yet what's worrisome is that there's no reason why Microsoft needs to continue offering the product for sale. As long as the price of renewing Office is less than the cost of buying a different product and converting all the old files and documents to the new format, customers will continue to renew their subscriptions, year after year--not a bad deal for the folks in Redmond...
...witnessing the emergence of a class of digital rent-seekers--a group of businesses and industry associations that use the tools of encryption and a favorable legal environment to change the source of their income from occasional sales to regular monthly or annual fees. A consumer who buys a product is far less vulnerable than one who merely rents or licenses a product--and what business wouldn't want to retain that kind of control? And as license agreements proliferate and electronic goods play an ever greater role in our lives, the impact on society of this transfer in control...