Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...together with Yahoo are remaking the face of global commerce. Want to snag a $900 suit for $150? Try countryroadfashions.com (but be warned: they're based in Thailand, so you'll have to take your own measurements). Looking for that hard-to-find anthropology book? Amazon.com is your best bet. Yearn to have your weekly groceries delivered to your door? Peapod.com exists to make your grocery shopping easier--and it even lets you specify how ripe you like your bananas. How about if you want to know the difference between several brands of stereo receivers? Try Compare.Net, which offers...
...deal. Dropping its sword became merely a matter of not angering its biggest customer. For the Pentagon, halting the shrinkage of its stable of weapons suppliers was more than an economic decision. In the defense industry, decreased competition means not just potentially higher prices but potentially lost lives. Bet Joel Klein wishes he could use that argument against Microsoft...
...manufacturing archrivals are also locked in a bet-your-company stare-down over the immediate future of air travel. Airbus foresees a market for a superjumbo successor to the 747 that can haul anywhere from 555 to nearly 1,000 passengers. (The largest 747 carries as many as 568 people.) Working with some 20 airlines, Airbus is spending $9 billion to develop a plane it calls the A3XX and promises to roll out the monster by 2004. Boeing says its own "medium-large" 767s and 777s can easily connect cities such as Cincinnati, Ohio, and Frankfurt, Germany, eliminating the need...
...virtually anything having to do with homosexuality. The Censorware Project, which opposes the use by public institutions of these blunt instruments, found that the filter used by the federal court systems in 22 states blocks a Jewish teen site, a Liza Minnelli fan page and a grocery story (I bet chicken breasts is the offending keyword). "Leaving your kid alone in the house with an Internet-connected computer and a censorware product on it is a poor substitute for parental supervision," says Jonathan Wallace, a lawyer who works on the project...
...fiance and help him convince his sublimely indifferent parents (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara) that he's been doing top-secret CIA work all the years he was in jail. The last is to assassinate the Buffalo Bills placekicker whose missed field goal caused him to lose the bet that led him into a life of crime...