Bush Promises Long-Term Help for Asia (AP)

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Bush Promises Long-Term Aid for Asia
(AP)

Bush Promises Long-Term Aid for Asia
(AP) 12/30/2004 12:55 AM
AP - President Bush assembled a four-nation coalition to organize humanitarian relief for Asia and made clear Wednesday the United States will help bankroll long-term rebuilding in the region leveled by a massive earthquake and tsunamis.

Bush Promises Long-Range Help as
Impatience Grows in Region

Bush Promises Long-Range Help as
Impatience Grows in Region 12/30/2004 12:52 AM
Officials said the estimated toll from the disaster now surpassed 80,000 dead, as impatience with the pace of relief efforts rose.

Putin, Beginning 2nd Term, Promises
Russia More Prosperity

Putin, Beginning 2nd Term, Promises
Russia More Prosperity 05/07/2004 04:28 PM
Vladimir V. Putin inaugurated his second term today with a pledge to give Russians "a real, tangible increase in their prosperity."

World Urged to Make Good on Asia Aid
Promises

World Urged to Make Good on Asia Aid
Promises 01/06/2005 12:10 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 6 2005 3:43PM GMT

Software for the Long Term

Software for the Long Term 07/14/2004 12:00 PM

Dan Bricklin: Software That Lasts 200 Years. We need to start thinking about software in a way more like how we think about building bridges, dams, and sewers. What we build must last for generations without total rebuilding. This requires new thinking and new ways of organizing development. This is especially important for governments of all sizes as well as for established, ongoing businesses and institutions.

Thinking long term

Thinking long term 05/10/2004 01:05 PM
"We dont rely much on search engine results, but i can see that there are some fundamental changes that could be made to our site that could produce better SE results"

Consider Long-Term Care Insurance

Consider Long-Term Care Insurance 05/25/2004 01:23 PM
Some scary statistics make a good case for it.

Learn About Long-Term Care

Learn About Long-Term Care 07/26/2004 11:01 AM
Don't put off learning about long-term care until it's too late.

Long Term Effects of Outsourcing

Long Term Effects of Outsourcing 01/05/2004 09:46 AM

BEA Systems: long term logic

BEA Systems: long term logic 03/21/2003 03:32 AM
New version of its Weblogic Workshop

Perl/CGI/ASP for Long Term - Must have
Clearance

Perl/CGI/ASP for Long Term - Must have
Clearance 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Imphasis, LLC - United States, North Carolina, Ft. Bragg (2003-03-10)

Hilton, HSI: Long-Term Partners

Hilton, HSI: Long-Term Partners 05/10/2004 10:01 AM
Hotel giant turns to long-standing partner for POS systems.

iSeries overhaul looks to the long term

iSeries overhaul looks to the long term 08/09/2004 09:24 AM
ZDNet Aug 9 2004 2:20PM GMT

IBM CFO Sees Long-Term Growth

IBM CFO Sees Long-Term Growth 12/04/2003 09:36 PM
Boston Globe Dec 4 2003 8:18PM ET

What Long-Term Care Insurance Is For

What Long-Term Care Insurance Is For 09/08/2004 11:07 AM
It can cover at-home care, too -- not just nursing-home care.

Long-term mentally ill 'ignored'

Long-term mentally ill 'ignored' 04/14/2004 04:59 AM
A "forgotten generation" of the long-term mentally ill are being left behind by government reforms, a charity says.

'Improve' care for long-term ill

'Improve' care for long-term ill 09/08/2004 05:11 AM
Care for people with chronic disease must be improved, a manifesto published by leading health organisations says

Fujitsu Siemens makes long term bet on
Red Hat

Fujitsu Siemens makes long term bet on
Red Hat 12/18/2003 02:23 PM
ZDNet UK Dec 18 2003 12:56PM ET

The long-term cycles of
webl0g-writing...

The long-term cycles of
webl0g-writing... 12/02/2003 01:34 AM

Writing for a weblog seems to me to go through cycles. At times, words just flow from your fingertips effortlessly. The quality of those words will generally be rather debatable, but they'll have a fluidity to them and an honesty or playfulness that at least partly compensates for their lack of substance. Normally with me, these periods gradually bed down into highly productive periods of good writing about things that I'm thinking about in greater depth - pieces of writing that I think have some greater utility or worth about subjects that I care about. Normally I've been thinking around these issues for a while but not had the mental discipline to drag them into a more coherent shape. During these periods, I do my best work.

These periods - inevitably - do not last. What seems to happen is that the material I want to write gets more and more convoluted, high concept and/or involved, more necessarily rigorous in execution and generally larger in scale until such a point where the pressure to articulate an idea properly overwhelms my ability to write at all. At those points - suddenly - I find myself completely blocked and unable to produce anything. Smaller, lighter, trivial posts occasionally squeeze their way out - but for all intents and purposes, I'm just unable to write. From there it's a short, unpleasant wait of mounting tension, frustration and irritation until the walls collapse and posts pour forth - this time with little or no discrimination in evidence, full of bad jokes, thrown together collections of links and the like. And then from there the cycle repeats itself as concepts of quality and discernment slowly start creeping back into my output.

As a matter of interest - does this pattern sound familiar to anyone else or is this simply a personal thing?

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Webmethods reinvents itself for
long-term growth

Webmethods reinvents itself for
long-term growth 11/18/2003 07:03 AM
Computer Weekly Nov 18 2003 6:10AM ET

Intel upbeat on long-term forecasts

Intel upbeat on long-term forecasts 11/02/2003 09:47 PM
Scotsman Online Nov 2 2003 8:42PM ET

Microsoft: patching is not a long-term
solution

Microsoft: patching is not a long-term
solution 05/11/2004 09:28 AM

SALT - Seminars About Long-term Thinking

SALT - Seminars About Long-term Thinking 07/13/2004 08:23 AM
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Fuel cell laptop promises long life

Fuel cell laptop promises long life 06/25/2004 12:30 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Thu Jun 24, 05:27 pm GMT

Dave Duffield Redefines Long Term As
Less Than Three Months

Dave Duffield Redefines Long Term As
Less Than Three Months 12/28/2004 07:08 PM
It's unlikely to surprise just about anyone, but Dave Duffield won't stick around to be a part of Oracle, now that the PeopleSoft deal is set. He apparently put in his resignation last week after just a couple months on the job. When he came in, following the firing of Craig Conway in October, many assumed he was brought in to sell the company to Oracle. He quickly claimed that he had no intention of selling to Oracle, which lasted less than two months before he agreed to sell to Oracle. Now that that's done, there's no reason for him to stick around. Apparently his statement: "I'm here for the long term," was open to interpretation. Of course, in an age when Wall Street judges a company's "long term" prospects based on their quarterly performance, perhaps this does meet the definition of long term these days.

Afghanistan to Seek Long-Term Ties With
U.S., Karzai Says

Afghanistan to Seek Long-Term Ties With
U.S., Karzai Says 04/13/2005 02:08 PM
The proposal could include U.S. economic assistance as well as security guarantees and military cooperation.

Study questions Google's long-term
dominance

Study questions Google's long-term
dominance 05/25/2004 05:39 PM

Attention Deficit Drugs May Have
Long-Term Effects

Attention Deficit Drugs May Have
Long-Term Effects 12/08/2003 01:09 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 8 2003 0:36AM ET

Is Firefox the sign of long term
problems at Microsoft?

Is Firefox the sign of long term
problems at Microsoft? 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
Microsoft is caught in a potential pincer movement where it will have to: 1. compete in a consumer market where...

IT Investor's Journal: Some long-term
concerns about Microsoft

IT Investor's Journal: Some long-term
concerns about Microsoft 04/19/2004 11:05 AM
IT stock analyst Melanie Hollands has long-term concerns about Microsoft and its growth outlook, despite overwhelming share in several markets. Aside from slowing growth at the company and the competitive threat of Linux, her concerns include the delay of Longhorn and the transition leading up to its introduction. Read on at ITMJ.

Intellectual property bad for long-term
corporate profits?

Intellectual property bad for long-term
corporate profits? 12/17/2004 06:35 PM

A friend of ours is living in Shanghai and has learned Mandarin, to read Chinese, and to manage young Chinese computer science graduates.  A bunch of us were kicking around ideas for starting businesses that would exploit this resource.  One of my suggestions was a tutoring service that would enable yuppie parents in the U.S. to hire a Chinese tutor/coach to work with their children via video conference, helping with math and keeping track of homework goals, etc.  A Silicon Valley friend, let's call him UberNerd, heaped scorn on this idea.  "Where's your intellectual property protection?  If you don't have a patent you can't make any money."

Having flown out to California on JetBlue, which is profitable despite not being able to patent "being nice" and "free wireless Internet at the gates in JFK and Long Beach" (not in Logan, presumably thanks to Massport's having handed out a monopoly to Comcast), and driving around in a car from Hertz, which is profitable despite not being able to patent "cars that aren't decrepit", my gut feeling was that he was wrong.  There were at least some companies that were profitable without extracting rents from intellectual property.  After more consideration I'm beginning to think that intellectual property is actually bad for long-term profitability.

Checking t he top 10 out of the Fortune 500 companies, for example, we find Walmart right on top, followed by Exxon Mobil.  Except for IBM none of the companies feels like one based on intellectual property and even IBM these days gets most of its revenue from service.  Certainly it is tough to see how an insurance company such as AIG (#10) and a bank such as Citigroup (#8) are living large from patents.

Perhaps intellectual property for a corporation is like oil for a Third World nation.  The government of an Arab or African country need not worry about being efficient nor about the education of its subjects as long as it can just dig a hole and money comes out of the ground.  By analogy the management of a company such as Disney can rest assured that quite a bit of revenue will continue to flow from movies and characters developed many decades ago.  Disney's management can concentrate on transferring money into their personal checking accounts while Walmart's management has to worry every day about beating Target, Kmart, and Sears.

Drug companies would seem to be an exception.  Most of their profits indeed comes from a handful of blockbuster patented drugs. Yet perhaps they are not exceptional if we remember that the proposition includes "long-term profitability" and if we adjust for investment and risk.  Walmart has crawled to the top of the Fortune 500 without ever taking the kinds of risk that hit-or-miss businesses take.  And except for Walmart all of the Top 10 companies were very successful 70 or more years ago whereas drug companies tend to rise and fall.

Which gets us back to the question of... what kind of business should one start given that one already has a person on the ground in Shanghai?

Is Google making a long-term mistake in
going public?

Is Google making a long-term mistake in
going public? 05/05/2004 12:53 PM
Google's initial public stock offering, which will probably take place within three months, is a strange brew of optimism, idealism, and pragmatism – all of which reinforces the adage that "the more things change, the more they stay the same."

Microsoft gives developers long-term
Longhorn details

Microsoft gives developers long-term
Longhorn details 11/01/2003 03:02 AM
ITBusiness.ca Nov 1 2003 2:16AM ET

Train your team to gain long-term
benefits

Train your team to gain long-term
benefits 02/15/2003 02:56 AM
CNET Feb 15 2003 1:24AM ET

Moody's says may raise Dell long-term
ratings

Moody's says may raise Dell long-term
ratings 06/03/2004 03:33 PM
Reuters Jun 3 2004 6:58PM GMT

"Long-Term Plan Sought For Terror
Suspects"

"Long-Term Plan Sought For Terror
Suspects" 01/04/2005 12:48 AM

News Analysis: Google talks long-term

News Analysis: Google talks long-term 04/30/2004 04:57 AM
IHT Apr 30 2004 9:29AM GMT

Study questions Google's long-term
dominance

Study questions Google's long-term
dominance 05/25/2004 07:16 PM
ZDNet.com-1 hour agoWhen it comes to search engines, people overwhelmingly prefer Google--but increasing competition from a number of rivals could eventually threaten the ...

Low Key Search Optimization Producing
Long Term Results

Low Key Search Optimization Producing
Long Term Results 03/14/2005 05:15 PM
"...best tactic may be to just develop a site with plenty of good content, relevant titles, get the odp and yahoo listing and leave it at that."
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