If you're hot, you know you may only be in demand for a short period of time, so you negotiate the best possible deal. Severance packages have been bubbling up little by little in the last 10 to 15 years as executive salaries and compensation have been. |
If you're not paying attention from behind you might not be doing anything wrong but you can still get knocked off the track. The last five times I've started I haven't finished for whatever reason. The goal is to get through it and then try to do well. |
In 2002, I was sitting at home watching the opening ceremonies, not knowing how emotional it would be knowing I could have been there. I turned it off pretty quick. I don't know what it would have felt like if we'd had to do it again. I'm glad we don't. |
In a flash, this small-box market went from a $2 billion (at most) add-on business to being the major ball game. Up to this point, all of Sun's R&D focus and inherent competitive advantage was in big systems and the vertical enterprise systems business. |
In a perfect world, we'd have the resources and funding to send salespeople out to every client, but we don't. This video newsletter does that for [us]. It connects us with the customer; it's a viewer-controlled virtual extension of the IBM sales force. |
In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More importantly, we are continuing to demonstrate our ability to deliver complex and mission critical solutions to clients all across our industry segments. |
In addition to training sessions with all county poll workers and scheduled public demonstrations, the office of elections is willing to take voting terminals to civic groups, clubs or public functions for hands-on demonstrations anywhere in the county. |
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In discussions with a number of equipment vendors, Ixia competitors and other industry contacts, we have not received any negative data points about current business conditions, ... Instead, we are generally hearing that positive trends remain in place. |
In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growth path. Even though oil prices are higher, the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Therefore, we see consumers' savings rate falling and spending up. |
In leadership, you become a lightning rod and a target. It gives you influence to deliver for your district, but that comes at a high political cost. There comes a point where voters ask, 'Is he more concerned about coming back here or staying up there? |
In my mind it makes eminent sense. They have a lot of compatible routes, a lot of cost take-out in terms of rationalizing the fleet, and you only need one accounting, legal, marketing and other functions. ... But will they get it done? I don't think so. |
In naïve techno-utopianism, we just put everything into the land of bits without really thinking about it. We've lost a lot of the things that we had in the physical world-a lot of the intuitions, a lot of the fidelity of control that our bodies offer. |
In New York I didn't have a TV. I had a rented bed. I never hung art on the walls. I always liked to be able to throw everything into a bag and leave. And I think I have that attitude about certain relationships, and I think it was a protective measure. |
In our community we don't think of crime as being a big issue. We feel safe here. So this really shocks us that this would happen. And when you get that shock there are people who are vulnerable to having high stress or high anxiety in response to that. |