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To: E. Graphs who wrote (716)	3/5/2000 1:39:00 PM
From: Duane L. Olson	Respond to of 4564

E! Thought-provoking. We should have a discussion on the meaning of trade deficits some time. My current speculation is NERX, although I just sold my shares....looking to get back in....their cancer approach appears to be highly promising... siliconinvestor.com Looks like you have been having fun :-) tso

To: E. Graphs who wrote (716)	3/5/2000 4:05:00 PM
From: E. Graphs	Respond to of 4564

Companies Squeeze the Patent Pipeline techreview.com >>...Lou Galambos, a historian of business at Johns Hopkins University, calls rapid change, in all phases of corporate affairs, the leitmotif of a fundamental transformation in American business, the third in just over a century. The first was the great merger movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which saw 4,200 firms collapse into about 250. A second transformation occurred after World War II, with the rise of the multidivisional, decentralized corporation. The current shift, the most powerful yet, began in the 1970s but didn't hit full stride until the 1990s. Here, U.S. companies lock horns with previously war-weakened Japanese and German rivals and a host of other international competitors. "Firms deal with an international economy with intense competition and unending pressures to innovate," Galambos asserts....<<