Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Supporters of antitrust law argue that decisions like Judge Jackson's actually strengthen the free market. The new economy--and America's unprecedented run of growth and prosperity--has been fueled to a significant degree by small start-ups founded by entrepreneurs with big dreams. These are precisely the sort of companies that can be crushed most easily by a brutal monopolist. When antitrust law works right, it can give these enterprising small firms room to grow. "There are a lot of companies that have for years operated in absolute terror of Microsoft," says Sun's Morris. The ruling...
...Lincoln High School varsity football practice two days before the big homecoming game, and the fullback, during a break in the pop and crunch of colliding pads, says to the halfback, "I still have to go pick up a dress for the dance...
...billion of earnings in the fiscal year ending in June, analysts estimate. That by itself is more than the annual profit of nine of 10 FORTUNE 500 companies. Gates exploits his money machine. He has large stakes in cable, Internet and telecom properties, pretty much assuring himself a big piece of the tech future, whatever it brings...
...wants to know. If it serves up 300,000 pages of information a day, does that mean 300,000 different people came to visit, or 50,000 who each visited six times? Glaser's techies tagged each user with a special ID number, or cookie, that identified them. Most big sites do the same thing, from Microsoft's to Time Warner's. But Real crossed the line when it correlated that ID number with each user's e-mail address and matched it to the user's offline listening habits. Even this might have been O.K. if it had disclosed...
...foul-tasting zinc lozenges. That's because zinc ions are about the same size and shape as the molecular doorway through which one major group of cold viruses, called the rhinoviruses (rhino for "nose"), breaks into the nasal cells. Coat those viruses with zinc, and they're too big to slide through the door. Or at least that's the theory. So far, a dozen studies have shown mixed results...