Burnout! Too few of the best ideas come from the over-30 crowd. It doesn't have to be that way
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High-tech workers often suffer symptoms of 'burnout,' but the creative life need not necessarily end early. High-tech companies are learning how to minimize employee stress and are treating their personnel with more care. Various techniques such as counseling and changes of projects can help. More fundamentally, it is probably true that new ideas tend to come from the minds of younger people, but this is partly because young people are less encumbered by children and social demands. Relaxation is important. So is the freedom to think without having to constantly defend one's ideas. It is sometimes harmful for a technically minded person to follow the traditional career path into management. Working in management sometimes stultifies creativity.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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Cashless society may be inching toward reality
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An agreement to abandon a joint venture between Mastercard International Inc and Visa International Inc will increase competition in the debit-card market and speed the development of the electronic point-of-sale payment system. The attorneys general of 14 states were involved in an antitrust law suit against the two companies that were planning to launch Entree, a national card that would allow consumers to automatically deduct from their bank-account balances to make purchases. The program had not reached retailers or consumers, but several financial institutions who joined the program will need to be notified of the cancellation.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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A tangled tale of GE, appliance smuggling and laundered money; firm gets tough on dealers in Miami area, prodded by a gadfly in Colombia; the Medellin black market
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General Electric Co. now denies its foot-dragging for about 10 years while Roberto Rothstein gradually was forced out of business because he couldn't compete with the drug traffickers. He has a paper trail of memos and letters asking the company to do something about the unfair practice of allowing appliances into Colombia as a front for drug money laundering. Now Rothstein is suing GE for $17 million and the company calls his charges preposterous.
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GE hasn't seemed interested in plugging the leaks in money laundering though its Miami dealers
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1998
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