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...release of the new proposal before dismissing it as a sop to Big Oil. They incessantly lambaste the Clinton Administration for neglecting the nation's long-term energy needs. And they scoff at any critic who suggests that the White House is too close to the energy sector...
...European stars in this sector show particular strengths in semiconductors, particularly high-speed opto-electronic and all-optical regeneration components as well as active fibers. These component firms are feeding equipment vendors, allowing them to design the transmission systems of tomorrow...
...public-service sector, the demand for teachers to instruct the young and for nurses to treat the old remains just as hot. At the University of Delaware, a recent job fair lured recruiters from 150 school districts across the U.S., who raced through 3,000 interviews in a single day. Small wonder that some 95% of Delaware's approximately 500 graduating teachers have landed jobs. The rest are merely avoiding them...
...themselves to the highest bidder, Tupelo's industrial-development effort seeks smaller employers across a diverse range of industries. And most new residents find Tupelo a pleasant place to live--one reason that turnover, a major expense for any business, runs only about 3% a year in the manufacturing sector, compared with double digits experienced by fast-food restaurants in the area...
...scaling back their projections for today's mobile phones, never mind tomorrow's; Ericsson's shares tumbled to a 17-month low after the company said that it expected handset sales to be considerably lower in 2001 than last year. Even Nokia, long the worldwide darling of the sector, is hurting; its stock price is about half its 12-month high...