Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gravity of the disaster reached around the world, close to $100 million in aid poured in. But Central America's development, which lagged far behind the rest of the world before the hurricane, has been set back decades...
...from claiming as many victims as the hurricane did." When the final tally is in, the assertions of a staggering toll may well be borne out. Those whom the floodwaters did not kill face the problems of isolation, starvation, disease and neglect--the normal stuff of tragedy in Central America, made hundreds of times worse by Mitch's murderous rains...
...court last week. Justice Department lawyer David Boies kicked off Week 3 of the decade's most watched antitrust suit by showing two hours of Gates' videotaped deposition. The excerpts, culled from about 20 hours taken last August, made Gates look like he was about the worst CEO in America...
...week earlier, America Online senior vice president David Colburn told his own tale of being bullied into dropping Netscape and adopting Microsoft's browser. AOL switched, Colburn said, because it was the only way Microsoft would agree to put the AOL icon on the Windows desktop--a key concession. Microsoft tried to get Colburn to say AOL had switched because Microsoft's browser was technically superior--and he had internal documents suggesting that some AOL employees thought so. But the gruffly sarcastic Colburn, who went to court in cowboy boots and several days' stubble, wouldn't budge...
Whether a turbocharged Web connection fundamentally changes the way we use the Internet or merely caffeinates our clicking remains to be seen. Even the reigning king of online content, America Online, isn't sure. "The challenge is to find new content that is both really exciting and needs to be interactive--you can't just do a bad version of TV," says Bob Pittman, president of America Online. He has a team at AOL working on concepts. In the meantime, we'll take the speed...