Word: appeals
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Though Sena says he thinks his ticket will appeal to different voters, he welcomes everyone's support...
...around. In 1976 he was convicted of stock fraud in Ontario and fined Can$500,000--believed to be the largest personal fine in Canadian history up to that time. In 1979 he was sentenced to four years in prison in another case, a conviction that was overturned on appeal. By the '80s, he had set out for Europe to help run an Amsterdam-based company called First Commerce Securities, which became mired in scandal. The operation was a classic boiler room--a brokerage firm that used high-pressure sales tactics to push dubious securities. Telemarketers dialed for dollars around...
...election. Whether Lott and Minority Leader Tom Daschle, who was also re-elected to his post on Tuesday, cooperate on campaign finance reform could be emblematic of how the two parties work together on other partisan issues such as balancing the budget and entitlements. Lott will have to appeal to moderate Democrats in order to push his legislative agenda: even though the GOP expanded its majority in the Senate by two seats to 55-45 in the November election, Republicans are still five votes short of stopping Democratic filibusters. At the same time, Lott will have to appease...
Part of the appeal of online music is economic. Electronic mail-order houses are one of the few businesses making money on the Web, and music CDs are among the biggest sellers (along with books, flowers and pornography). Buyers get to sample songs before they purchase, and they enjoy modest discounts (typical price: $9.95 a CD); sellers save a fortune on overhead and can carry a much wider selection of performers. Internet Underground Music Archive www.iuma.com) one of the pioneers in the online-music business, got its start peddling the CDs of unsigned bands that nobody had ever heard...
...their nifty buttons and sex appeal, handheld organizers have always seemed cooler in concept than in reality--too clunky and complicated to replace pen and paper. Then U.S. Robotics introduced its Pilot, the first palmtop to cram addresses and a daily calendar into a simple, 5-oz. electronic tablet. With a penlike stylus, users can jot down notes on the screen and transfer them to a desktop PC program like Lotus Organizer. ($249; Palm Computing...