Meanwhile, executives in China, India and much of the rest of the developing world increasingly encounter want amid plenty, as a shortage of suitable candidates and the changes associated with the staggering pace of economic growth make it difficult for companies to attract and retain enough qualified workers.
Gates' comments stands in stark contrast to those made by executives at Google, Facebook and much of Silicon Valley, who have applauded Tim Cook's hardline stance against opening this particular iPhone.
Although some government power authorities, electric company executives, the departing power minister and much of India's news media blamed the grid failures Monday and Tuesday on various states they said had taken in more than their expected power allotment, thus causing the grid to fail, others called that a mistaken oversimplification.
Wall Street financial executives don't make anything and much of what they do is parasitic.
And although they have now issued an interim Constitution keeping legislative and much of the executive power for themselves — and even said later Monday that they would appoint a general to run the new president's staff — the generals promised to hold a "grand celebration" when they turned over power as promised at the end of the month.
And much of what a chief executive needs in that business is marketing.
The sales pitch is more along the lines of, "you already use 500 instances of our software in your environment, wouldn't you like to upgrade to the enterprise edition and get these additional features?" This translates to much shorter sales cycles, the need for far fewer sales engineers per account executive, and much quicker payback periods of the cost of selling.
"Now academies are corporations and academics executives, without much of a sense of the ridiculous themselves, and not susceptible to magnanimous comedy.
Moreover, economists and business executives say, much of what happened to the economy in the 1990's had little to do with Washington and was part of a process that began before Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore took office.
Alongside Simon, the show's creator, head writer, showrunner and executive producer, much of the creative team behind The Wire were alumni of Homicide and Emmy-winning miniseries The Corner.
