Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pangi adds, "Much like we want access to things going on at the college or the Divinity School, I can't imagine being denied access to them or excluding anyone here...
Pangi adds, "Much like we want access to things going on at the college or the Divinity School, I can't imagine being denied access to them or excluding anyone here...
...barriers to Internet access are geographic. The online population is still largely well educated, pale skinned and upper-middle income--a point the Rev. Jesse Jackson reinforced in recent speeches to Silicon Valley leaders. Whites are twice as likely as blacks to own a computer and three times as likely to be plugged into the Internet...
Last month Motorola and Cisco Systems said they would jointly ante up $1 billion over four years to create wireless, high-speed Internet networks. AT&T and others are experimenting with cellular-like services that compress data and bring high-speed Web access into homes. That could help some rural areas. But while wireless towers can easily cover vast stretches of the plains, it's a far costlier matter to erect enough towers to throw signals around the Rocky Mountains. Moreover, many of the companies that are talking up wireless have densely packed urban businesses and mobile professionals in their...
...decided to take matters into their own hands. Some are forming cooperatives to string their own wire. Others are pulling strings. In Lusk, Wyo., a cajoling and far-sighted mayor was able to get fiber-optic cable laid into his town of 1,600 and give its two schools access to a T1 line (and Lusk a starring role in Microsoft's ads on TV). Town leaders see it as a matter of survival. "We want our kids to come back here," says Twila Barnette, who manages the county Chamber of Commerce. "But we have to be able to offer...