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Bill Gates is smiling again. The boyish enthusiasm is back,
and the grueling burdens of monopoly lawsuits and dot corn downturns are
receding. 61. {{U}}America’s best-known billionaire is back to doing what he has
always done best-designing exciting new products and making barrels of
money.{{/U}}
The launch of Office XP, a sophisticated rethink of
Microsoft’s most popular business tool at the end of this May, marks merely the
opening shot in a forthcoming technological blitz that Gates is serenely
convinced will cement his company’s status as the unshakeable colossus of
computing.
62. {{U}}"It’s great to see people enthused about what
we are doing, "Gates happily declares.{{/U}} How different it all looked a
year or so ago, when the US Department of Justice won its claim that Microsoft
had abused its Windows monopoly, and a court ordered the company to split
itself in two. Then there was the dotcom trouble. Last year the bubble burst
[单项选择] Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned university degree, is by his success raising new doubts about the worth of the business world’’s favorite academic title: the MBA ( Master of Business Administration).
The MBA, a 20th-century product, always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and greed on the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as philosophy and literature.
But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business school graduates, about 79,000 people are expected to receive MBAs in 1993. This is nearly 16 times the number of business graduates in 1960, a testimony to the widespread assumption that the MBA is vital for young men and women who want to run companies some day.
"If you are going into the corporate world it is still a disadvantage not to have one," said Donald Morrison, Professor of marketing and management science. " But in the last five years or so, when someone says, ’’ Should I at
A. They are usually self-centered.
B. They are aggressive and greedy.
C. They keep complaining about their jobs.
D. They are not good at dealing with people.