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see James Annable, “Insecure Executives Make the Economy Grow,”
WSJ
, April 28, 1997, A18; see also Richard Lester (director of the Industrial Technology Center at MIT),
The Productive Edge
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1998), pp. 27–30, and part IV (“Living with Ambiguity: A Path to Faster Growth”) pp. 261–331.
    5. Morris R. Schechtman,
Working Without a Net
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1994), pp. 5–6. Newt Gingrich put this book on his reading list for incoming congressional freshmen.
    6. Rosabeth Kanter,
World Class
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), pp. 156–57; for another version of this position, see Lester,
The Productive Edge
, pp. 29–30, 320–27.
    7. Carl Quintanilla, “More Top Executives Are Hitting the Road,”
WSJ
, January 12, 1996, p. B1.
    8. “Marriott to Buy Renaissance Hotel Group,”
WSJ
, February 19, 1997, A3; “Marriott to Provide Long-Term Guests a New Economy-Priced Hotel Option,”
WSJ
, February 13, 1996, B7; “No Room in the Inn,”
WSJ
, December 13, 1996, B17; “Why Business Travel Is Such Hard Work,”
WSJ
, December 30, 1996, B1; “Pace of Business Travel Abroad Is Beyond Breakneck,”
WSJ
, May 31, 1996, B1.
    9. “Global Managers Need Boundless Sensitivity, Rugged Conditions,”
WSJ
, October 13, 1998, B6. Quintanilla, “More Top Executives Are Hitting the Road,”
WSJ
, January 12, 1996, B1, B8; “An Overseas Stint Can Be Ticket to the Top,”
WSJ
, January 1, 29, 1996, B1, B8.
    10. Rachel Beck, “On the Road Again,”
Putnam Courier Trader
, December 7, 1995, 8B.
    11. Michael Lorelli and Drew Struzan,
Traveling Again, Dad?
(Traverse City, Mo., Publishers Design Service, 1996).
    12. On Cowley, see Warren Susman, “Pilgrimage to Paris: The Backgrounds of American Expatriation, 1920–30,” Ph.D. diss., Department of History, University of Wisconsin, 1957 (University Microfilm International, 1986), 22–23; on the general history of the early expatriate movement, see Susman and Mary McCarthy, “A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Internal Emigrés,” in Marc Robinson, ed.,
Altogether Elsewhere
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994), pp. 49–58.
    13. Darryl Pinckney, “How I Got Over,” in Robinson,
Altogether Elsewhere
, p. 34. And on the increase in numbers of businesspeople abroad, see Windham International and National Foreign Trade Council,
Global Relocation Trends 1994 Survey Report
(New York: Windham International, 1994), p. 9;
Global Relocation Trends 1995 Survey Report
, 1–13;
Global Relocation 1998 Survey Report
, pp. 6–10.
    14. Quoted by Michael Paterniti in his “Laptop Colonialists,”
New York Times Magazine
, January 12, 1997, 24–29, 34.
    15. Barry Newman, “The New Yank Abroad Is the ‘Can-Do’ Player in the Global Village,”
WSJ
, December 12, 1995, p. A1.
    16. Congress passed a 1996 tax law that attempted to penalize suchexpatriates, but, as the
WSJ
reported in 1998, “If [that] law has dissuaded anyone from giving up U.S. citizenship, it doesn’t show.”
WSJ
, December 28, 1998, p. A2. For the Republican effort to discredit the reform that targeted the rich, see Joint Committee on Taxation,
Issues Presented by Proposals to Modify the Tax Treatment of Expatriation
, pursuant to Public Law 104-7 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Press, 1995).
    17.
BusinessWeek
, July 10, 1995, 58–60;
BusinessWeek
, May 1, 1995, 140;
WSJ
, February 8, 1995, B1,
WSJ
, June 2, 1995, A3;
WSJ
, April 19, 1995, 1;
New York Times
(hereafter
NYT)
, April 12, 1995.
    18. “Top Dogs: U.S. Financial Firms Seize Dominant Role in the World Markets,”
WSJ
, January 5, 1996, 1; James H. Johnson, “Realities of the Virtual Enterprise,” unpaginated advertisement,
BusinessWeek
, December 4, 1995; “Developing World Gets More Investment,”
WSJ
, December 15, 1995, A9A; “U.S. Companies Again Hold Wide Lead over Rivals in Direct Investing Abroad,”
WSJ
, December 6, 1995, A2.
    19. On this whole dilemma, see “Disappearing Taxes,”
Economist
,