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A mother was sorting through treasured stuff her three daughters had accumulated over the years. In the process, she came across a questionnaire her middle daughter, Mary, had filled out while completing her master''s degree. In response to the q...

한국경제 | 1999.09.07 00:00

Financial regulators face a daunting task. Most of the world"s big exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, are planning to move from member-owned to profit-seeking status. Parallel to this, new technology is bring ing a genui...

한국경제 | 1999.08.02 00:00

... Stanfo rd Research Institute (now SRI International) working on augmenting human intellect through computers. In 1963 he proposed a "writing machine," what we now call a word processor, and in a twist on the old saw about building a better mousetrap invented the com ...

한국경제 | 1999.07.28 00:00

... child in five is still poor, and we are a long way from the early 1970"s, when one child in seven was poor, itself not a statistic to write home about. And the number of children in extreme poverty has increased. States are sitting on large surpluses of unspent Federal ...

한국경제 | 1999.07.14 00:00

A motorist pulled over on a side street to take a nap. As he settled down in the seat and closed his eyes, a jogger rapped on his window to ask the time. Bleary-eyes, he found his watch and said it to be 8 a.m. Sleeping at last, he was soon awake...

한국경제 | 1999.06.30 00:00

... neighbors were talking over the backyard sharing their woes. "You know I''m really annoyed," said one mother. "My son at college keeps writing home for money, and I worry about what he does with it." "With a daughter, it''s entirely different," said the other mother. "It''s ...

한국경제 | 1999.06.10 00:00

The Dangers of Derivatives Custom tailored financial derivatives are a neat example of how invention becomes the mother of necessity. Since the financial engineers began tinkering with the machinery of money flows in the late 1980s, banks and oth...

한국경제 | 1999.05.24 00:00

The big boss needed a new secretary, so he asked the young ladies in the typing pool to list their qualifications. One girl wrote, "I type 70 words per minute and am always on time." Another girl claimed, "I dictate sorthand at 120 words per minut...

한국경제 | 1999.05.18 00:00

The luscious blonde was in her first fifth grade teaching job. The first day she got up on a ladder to write something at the top of the blackboard. As she heard one of her students laugh, she turned and demanded, "Leon, what''s so funny?" "I can ...

한국경제 | 1999.04.23 00:00

A scientist was doing reseach on frogs. He laid a frog on a table, slammed his hand on the table, then yelled, "Jump!" The frog jumped. Next, he removed one front leg, yelled, "Jump!" and again the frog jumped. He removed another front leg and ...

한국경제 | 1999.03.05 00:00