The Mercury News (September 29)
“It’s becoming something of a tragic annual tradition for California’s wine country: Fast-moving flames terrorizing the regions, turning the sky into a smoky orange haze, destroying dozens of homes and wineries in its wrath and forcing tens of thousands of residents to frantically flee from their homes.”
Tags: California, Destroying, Flames, Haze, Homes, Residents, Tradition, Tragic, Wine Country, Wineries, Wrath
Boston Globe (May 18)
“Some complain that the annual shareholder meeting is a vestige of the old days, a tradition whose time has expired in the era of Skype and webcasts. Others insist it’s the last remaining forum for individual investors in publicly traded companies to sit in the same room as a business’s executives and directors.” Despite the efficiencies, “only about 200 out of 10,000 publicly traded US companies hold so-called virtual stockholder meetings.”
Tags: Complain, Directors, Executives, Individual investors, Shareholder meeting, Skype, Tradition, Virtual stockholder meetings, Webcasts
Boston Globe (January 14)
A “time-honored” tradition is falling victim to technology. A big snow used to mean a day spent doing nothing at home. Today, however, technology means snow days are spent replying to e-mails, making conference calls and doing much of the normal office routine. Technology has “taken the spontaneity out of one of the great New England rituals: getting snowed in.”
Tags: Snow days, Technology, Tradition
