Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems like a no-brainer. Call waiting has been around for more than a decade, so why does it slip into a coma when I'm surfing the Web on my home computer and a friend tries to call me on the same line? After all, a modem connection is just another phone call. But for all our high-tech wizardry, my friends still get a busy signal even if I'm just deleting junk e-mail or downloading a song. I may get a little drowsy at the keyboard, but I can still multitask--if only my PC will...
...Concord neighbors to wake up to the error of their ways: "We cultivate imported shrubs in our front yards for the beauty of their berries, while at least equally beautiful berries grow unregarded by us in the surrounding fields." He argues passionately against the careless destruction of the wilderness around him. Hearing that huckleberry pickers in his area have been ordered off privately owned fields, he fumes, "What becomes of the true value of country life--what, if you must go to market for it? It has come to this, that the butcher now brings round our huckleberries...
...that hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars will be in showrooms by 2004 is even more exciting. It is true that their only exhaust is water vapor. However, Hertsgaard seems reluctant to spoil the party by telling us where the hydrogen comes from. It is certainly not out there floating around in large amounts free for the asking. Fuel-cell-powered autos would make for much more efficient use of the ubiquitous fossil fuels, but propulsion free of dependence on these fuels is still a long way off. G. WILLIAM GOWARD Clinton, Conn...
...meet his payroll. A year ago, though, he bought the assets of a local machine shop whose owner was "tired of being a small businessman." The acquisition enabled Air Power to double its production capacity. Now Mocha is looking at two more potential acquisitions, each of which would cost around $100,000 to $150,000; they may be a way to increase sales and profits without adding to his 24-employee payroll. But Mocha has no dreams of becoming a conglomerateur. "I know the truck-equipment industry," he says. "But if I were to buy a waffle shop, the learning...
...Around the turn of the century, a little girl named Evelyn Dougherty migrated with her family from a hardscrabble farm near Sarnia, Ont., to central Michigan. The journey looms large in the consciousness of her grandson, Michigan Governor John Engler. "We should never forget how much of this state was settled by immigrants from the north," he observed in his airy office across the street from the state capitol building in Lansing. Engler is not about to develop amnesia. His ambitious economic plans for Michigan depend in no small part on the intimate connections forged between his state...