Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's a balance the most nimble Chinese gymnast would find tough to maintain. The Net, after all, is designed to be open. And if the idea of the Web is to make Chinese firms more competitive, that means letting them have access to everything from DuPont's chemicals website to the U.S. Patent Office's listing of new inventions. For that reason, some Chinese think the government will drop all its talk about an intranet and throw open the doors. Says a 24-year-old engineer at Unicom-Sparkice: "Walk into any Chinese company with Net access and look...
...proponents argue for a bit of patience. "Some control is needed at this point, because otherwise China would go wild," says UTStarcom's Hong Lu. "If you just jump too fast, it's not good." In an early attempt at a Net policy, the government in 1996 banned access to a range of sites from playboy.com to time.com in order to help combat "spiritual pollution." But an afternoon's surfing in Beijing shows the government firewalls that block access to these sites are only partly effective. While cnn.com is resolutely blocked, other Western news-focused sites are occasionally accessible because...
...while shaving, has painfully discovered. Garrett, professor of engineering at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, bought computer maker Unisys for $5 a share some time ago, only to dump it a few months later when it failed to show a quick gain. "If I didn't have easy access [to trading] maybe I wouldn't have jumped so fast," Garrett says of his sale of Unisys, which closed last week at $23 a share...
...third of the online trade business--or 1.5 million accounts--despite a $29.95 commission, which is three times higher than the deep discounters charge (see chart). Schwab's secret has been to knock down the wall between its online business and its 5 million regular account holders, giving everyone access to the entire range of products and services available at the firm. These include round-the-clock, dial-up brokers and technical support, and a financial supermarket that offers 1,500 different mutual funds...
...Western and Midwestern states. Only U.S. West now stands between SBC control of nearly three quarters of the U.S. Throw in telecom deregulation that should eventually allow local phone companies to enter the long distance market even as households are adding second and third lines for Internet access, and suddenly San Antonio-based SBC is starting to look an awful lot like the phone company of Lilly Tomlin's dreams. Wall Street was of course pleased with the news, sending Ameritech up $2.43 3/4 in early trading...