- Benefits of telecommuting for engineers and other
high-tech professionals.
For millions of engineers and other high-tech professionals, telecommuting (TC) offers attractive benefits. There is a growing recognition that TC provides an economical and effective technique, with benefits for the environment, the company, and individuals. In 1989, a statute requiring companies with over 100 employees at one site to present ......
- Smooth Selling in South Africa
Nelson Mandela may be stepping aside in South Africa when his term as president ends next year, but clever American marketers will likely just be stepping in.
- The world according to guy.
"Part of starting a company is you have to be in denial. You have to not know how hard it is," says local-born entrepreneur, author and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki. "I have three startups, their ages are 3, 9 and 11. And that's enough for me. I'll never start a ......
- As good as it gets.
Big Islanders have been able to ward off the worst effects of the Asian flu. Decisions they make this month could determine whether they're still in good shape next year. The Big Island must have taken its medicine this year. The county has been able to ward off the Asian ......
- Institutional members: a complete list of the World
Future Society's member organizations.
ASSOCIATIONS/FOUNDATIONS Advocacy AG Communication and Consultation, Basel, Switzerland, Mathis Brauchbar Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of British Columbia, Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, Canada, John Leech Arcos Cielos Research Center, Sedona, Arizona, Elliott Maynard Baha'i World Centre Library, Haifa, Israel, Bonnie J. Ellis Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C. Finland ......
- The DoD awards billion-dollar contract TriWest Healthcare Alliance
The Department of Defense recently created a new 21-state TRICARE (the military's health care program) west region that combines the current central region with California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. And the $10 billion Department of Defense contract to manage the new west region's health care program, referred to as ......
- The lonely state: fewer tourists mean the
economy's glum-in-the-sun outlook will stretch into
1994.
The breakfast buffet went largely uneaten at First Hawaiian Bank's recent economic outlook forum. Few of the invited guests, members of Hawaii's commercial and political elite, could have had much of an appetite after hearing the bank's senior economist deliver his forecast for 1994. Pointing to a graph showing a ......