Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trailing 3-1 in that inning, Harvard made its comeback bid. Junior shortstop David Forst drew a leadoff walk, and junior centerfielder Brian Ralph singled to right center. Kessler then reached on a fielder's choice...
...Apple Computer. The attraction: Apple's interface, which promises to open the Net to millions of surfers. McNealy flirted with buying Apple last spring; Jobs recently rejoined the firm in an "advisory role"; and last week Ellison asked in a Web-based poll if he should launch a takeover bid. The results--inconclusive--did validate one assumption about these three kings: ambition doesn't end at the first billion...
...they are--and of all the difficult questions that have swirled around King's murder for the past 29 years, none is more perplexing than why his heirs have become the chief boosters of the bid by Ray to exonerate himself before he dies from liver disease. In February, both Dexter and his mother Coretta Scott King testified in a court hearing in Memphis, Tennesee, that Ray should be given the full-fledged trial he never had because he pleaded guilty to the killing, before recanting three days later. Last week, after listening to Ray's up-close and personal...
...Anyone can create web pages. Most Internet service providers and online services offer customers server space to publish their efforts on the Net. Whether anyone will look at them is another question. The radical difference between the Internet and other mass media is that while anyone can make a bid for attention at http something or other, there is no central audience regularly tuning to channel 2 or 4 or 7 -- no easy way to command major market share. If websites were channels, there would be tens of millions of them on the Net, which helps explain why every muffler...
...Anyone can create web pages. Most Internet service providers and online services offer customers server space to publish their efforts on the Net. Whether anyone will look at them is another question. The radical difference between the Internet and other mass media is that while anyone can make a bid for attention at http something or other, there is no central audience regularly tuning to channel 2 or 4 or 7 -- no easy way to command major market share. If websites were channels, there would be tens of millions of them on the Net, which helps explain why every muffler...