They are the three scariest words in U.S. industry. Cut your price at least 30% or lose your customers. Nearly every manufacturer is vulnerable — from furniture to networking gear. The result: A massive shift in economic power is under way.
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November 30, 2004
“The China Price”
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November 25, 2004
赖斯传记：在婚礼门口徘徊+在苏联数窗户
她和未婚夫走进礼服店选订婚纱，但最终没有走进结婚礼堂，至今小姑独处。
．高中时，学校评估她「不具念大学的资格」，但她却成了美国「四大」之一史丹福大学的副校长。
．她曾打算进入著名的茱丽亚音乐学院，后来却成为政治学博士。
．企业不是她的本行，却有一艘巨型油轮曾以她的名字命名。
．戈巴契夫曾怀疑她真懂苏联，结果她以漂亮的俄语风靡莫斯科。
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November 21, 2004
Open-Source CRM Not Yet a Contender
Fri Nov 12, 3:23 PM ET
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Erika Morphy, www.crm-daily.com
Commercial open source CRM providers have established their presence in the CRM market in relatively short order, with at least four companies — Sugar CRM, Ohioedge Anteil, Compiere — setting up shop over the last year.
Their sudden popularity is understandable. By building their own applications, users can customize a CRM application exactly as they would like, and at the same time they get to avoid the steep maintenance and fees associated with licensed software.
Sooner or later competing vendors — a group that includes hosted software providers and traditional on-premise software companies — will begin to feel the bite of the new competition. Gartner research analyst Wendy Close told CRM Daily, for example, that she believes the existence of open-source CRM vendors will keep the hosted CRM vendors’ subscription fees down over the next five years.
“Market awareness of open source CRM is definitely taking off, she tells NewsFactor.
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November 15, 2004
Reading the Nutrition Label
What’s all that fine print mean to your workout
By: Gay Riley, M.S., R.D., C.C.N.
Who knows what a gram is? Europeans and cocaine dealers, that’s who. But not law-abiding Americans, unless they happen to be dietitians, like me. I know that 5 grams (g) is about a teaspoon. So whenever I pick up a frozen dinner with 10 g saturated fat listed on the Nutrition Facts label, I see 2 spoonfuls of pallid, artery-clogging fat staring back at me.
These labels started appearing on every item of packaged food in the United States in 1990. At first, the law required a listing of calories, fat, carbohydrates, protein, and sodium. In 1993, saturated fats and cholesterol were added. And in 2006, all labels will list food allergens and trans fats, the dangerous mutant gunk that’s formed when food manufacturers turn liquid oils into solid fats so they’ll stay stable on grocery-store shelves.
Like most legislation, the labeling law was meant to be helpful. And it has been, mostly. Yet, 14 years later, many people still don’t understand how to put the information into practice. This guide is your Cliffs Notes for your next supermarket test.
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