Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, wonder no more. This Christmas offers an unprecedented number of snazzy gift options for the technically inclined. Bring your gold card, though; some of them may be a bit pricey...
...dead in a jacket like that. Only a fraction of New Trier's pot smokers--the denizens of the Corner among them--view getting high as the main part of their identity. For most, marijuana is an ancillary pleasure of growing up comfortably in the '90s, not the least bit incompatible with varsity athletics, the spring musical or advanced-placement chemistry. After all, most of the kids at New Trier will go on to succeed, just as their parents did. The fact that they have tried pot won't cancel out the perks of good breeding and unbounded opportunity...
...legal reasons, the company faces a Jan. 23 deadline to go public. On the plus side: unlike companies with no revenue and barely more than a product design, MoneyGram has a real business. Last year it earned $18 million on revenue of $137 million. Earnings are down a bit this year, but money transfers are on the rise. It has 16% of the worldwide nonbank consumer-money-transfer market. But Western Union, the granddaddy of the wire business, claims 81% of the market. "Our big concern is Western Union's dominance," says Travis Farr, analyst at IPO research firm Renaissance...
...moral skunks, notably the loutish boyfriend (Dwight Yoakam) of Frank's mom. Sling Blade is about the difficulty good folks have living with rotten ones. The film keeps you guessing whether it will be a horror movie or a love story. Turns out to be a bit of both...
...will the N64 be? Harrison expects 5 million to sell by Christmas '97. Not bad, but a far cry from the original eight-bit system; almost 40 million units sold in the Stone...