Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grove argues that change can be managed if CEOs are smart enough to listen to their employees, who usually spot such shifts on their purchasing orders eons before boardroom execs see the impact on the bottom line. And to help filter real, important change from the vagaries that trigger expensive false starts, Grove offers a useful primer on what to look for. His deep understanding of the history of technology and his engineer's perspective on scientific revolutions make him a companionable guide. Among his "tests" for recognizing approaching shifts: imagine you have one silver bullet to place...
...remarkable to think that the issue of clear-cutting would trigger such a fierce debate in Maine, a state Ralph Nader once called "a paper plantation." Unlike the West, almost half the state is in the hands of private timber interests. This is the largest concentration of industry ownership in the country. Just 15 corporate landlords own 9.6 million acres, primarily in the North Woods, the great dark forest blanketing Maine's upper reaches. The same industry produced $5.5 billion worth of paper and lumber products last year, as well as 26,000 jobs for this hard-pressed economy. Such...
...should the new guys succeed where their forebears failed? Several reasons: computers are more powerful, modems are faster, graphics software is more sophisticated, and latency--that annoying lag between when you pull the trigger in Topeka and when the bad guy blows up in Boston--has been sharply reduced. Most important, the Web's maturation means that gamemakers don't need proprietary networks to get customers online. Even the mighty home-video-game industry, which should get a much needed kick in the pants this week with the release of the hotly anticipated Nintendo 64 machine, has seen its sales...
...alive again, and eager to see Grrrl die. She has been abusing you for a while now; last time she blew you away with a fusillade from her nail gun. And as you glide along the blue gray corridors of this ghostly computer-generated world, finger itchy at the trigger, it's Grrrl you're after. The fact that in real life Grrrl is a pretty twentysomething who rudely shooed you out of her office just before the game started has nothing to do with it, you tell yourself. This is war--or its virtual equivalent...
...American cruise-missile strikes on the Iraqi military establishments were as abrupt as they were bizarre [WORLD, Sept. 23]. Those of us in other parts of the world are left only with the perception of a trigger-happy U.S. Despite a plausible semblance of unity, Western Europe and Japan are at a loss about how to react. The reference to the U.N. resolutions is mere rhetoric, a fig leaf to cover what lies behind election politics. This charade demonstrates that Clinton is not a true world leader. YASUO HORI Matsudamachi, Japan