Word: await
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They aren't dueling over peanuts: enormous fortunes await those whose software guides consumers through the cornucopia of goods and services that will comprise tomorrow's World Wide Web. Netscape founder Jim Clark realized this first, and his company released the initial--and now dominant--mainstream Web browser back in October '94. Today it enjoys a $3.5 billion market capitalization despite sales of just $80 million in 1995. Bill Gates saw the light last winter, famously stating that Microsoft was "hardcore about the Internet," and, to prove it, turning the $75 billion company, and its $8.7 billion of annual sales...
...knowledge that their product was addictive, a Florida jury awarded $750,000 to a longtime smoker who developed lung cancer. Though an Indianapolis, Indiana, jury handed the tobacco industry a break late last week by finding it not guilty in a similar case, more than 200 individual lawsuits nationwide await, plus 14 by states that are suing tobacco companies to retrieve tens of billions of dollars in Medicaid costs for smoking-related illnesses...
Musicians are not CDs; they await cues, tempos, phrasing instructions and a host of interpretative intangibles from the guy who's waving a baton at them. If Kaplan at Salzburg did not bring to mind a slick stick like Riccardo Muti or Valery Gergiev, his intense, attentive manner in front of the Philharmonia, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, mezzo-soprano Doris Soffel and soprano Rosa Mannion bespoke a firm grasp. Mahler's heaven-storming climaxes shook the Grossesfestspielhaus to its granite foundations, and anyone who did not feel a chill at the tremendous peroration must either have been dead...
...changes will await incoming first-years during orientation week...
...grateful for these advances in the architecture of swimwear, and I fervently await the dream suit that will be engineered to massage flesh northward from the belly to the bosom, where it will cluster in great alpine masses. The trouble is, though, that no matter how much a bathing suit can do for you, it cannot do enough. And I state this as a theoretical principle, rather than a confession of personal inadequacy. A recent issue of PEOPLE magazine revealed that even the "most beautiful stars" are not allowed to display their own bodies in nude and seminude scenes. "Body...