Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bolting to Los Angeles. Today Hayek, 28, still delights in snubbing her country's Establishment in ways few celebrities have dared--whether by endorsing new competition against Mexico's telephone monopoly or slamming the P.R.I. "I'm proud to be Mexican, but we've been lied to a bit too often," she told TIME. "This system can sell people, especially women, a lot of dreams they never...
...regulators reject Ameritech's application to provide long-distance service in June, Justice said the company had satisfied 11 of 14 requirements for opening its market. The Baby Bell still has a month to make up the deficiencies before the FCC rules. Richard Notebaert, Ameritech's chomping-at-the-bit chairman and CEO, can't wait to grab part of the $9 billion long-distance market in the five states that his company has already wired up. "We have zero percent of that market now," Notebaert says, "and our infrastructure is completely in place...
...enormous as it is, be learned, bit by bit, as one would study the Sistine Chapel or decipher James Joyce's Ulysses. Details once committed to memory--the name of a mountain pass, the curve of an exit ramp--will gain significance the more knowledge one acquires. Approaching the same point from a different direction will cause one part of the city to click into place in one's internal map as much as walking in Boston on Comm. Ave. cements the relationship between Back Bay and Fenway. And suddenly, a city that once seemed centerless will appear connected...
...final decision with our NASA colleagues on whether to carry out the spacewalk." On the NASA side, there seems to be some disagreement. One spokeswoman confirmed Solovyov's account, while another, Catherine Watson said in Moscow, indicated that the idea of Foale on a "practice run" was a bit presumptuous. "He can do some basic things," she said, "but no official simulations or the actual spacewalk ? none of that's been approved by NASA yet." The twice-delayed repairs are now scheduled to begin July 24, less than two weeks before the Mir's replacement crew, composed of two Russians...
...probably best known as the wry gentleman who every few months came calling on Johnny Carson. Stewart would uncoil himself in the Tonight Show guest seat, tell one of his hilariously laborious anecdotes, perhaps read one of the verses that, in 1989, made him a best-selling poet. One bit of doggerel elegized his pet golden retriever: "And now he's dead./ And there are nights when I think I feel him/ Climb upon our bed and lie between us,/ And I pat his head./ And there are nights when I think/ I feel that stare/ And I reach...