Word: boons
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...Linder, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, told TIME he expects a gain of 10 to 15 seats, then added, "It's starting to feel better than 10 to 15...and if it goes up, it goes from 15 to 30." But the looming impeachment isn't the boon Republicans had expected. The party's base of conservative voters is "15 times more likely to vote" because of the scandal, but they would have voted anyway. Many Republicans who need moderates to win are not using the scandal explicitly in their campaigns; some even consider it a third rail...
While financial aid increases by Yale and Princeton last year sought to increase enrollment of students in need of aid, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said Harvard's financial aid boon was designed to increase the quality of students' lives on campus...
...touch with Christopher Sabec, a music agent who happened to discover teen-rock idols the brothers Hanson. Sabec believes that far from being the music industry's undoing, MP3 will be a boon. The recording industry has always made a profit by giving away product for free," Sabec pointed out, mentioning radio as the obvious example. He said lots of savvy bands are already using the technology to put free music samples online legally. The gambit especially works for folks trying to break into the music biz who are eager to get radio airtime. In fact, a new band that...
While everyone debates how Internet commerce will affect big companies like Sears, there's no question that it has been a boon to small firms. Since our company went online with Railway Productions.com this year, we've been able to reach customers who never knew about our products. After all, how many stores sell a wide selection of videos about trains? Now we don't have to beg and plead with shop owners to give us a try. We just bypass them and go straight to the customer. LES JARRETT Indianapolis...
Curiously, rather than being a boon to the nascent hypertext-fiction movement, the Web is seen as a spoiler: "The regrettable rump faction says we lost the hypertext movement when the Web came along," says Joyce. "No one knows yet how to make this a popular medium." Why? "The Web is all edges and without much depth, and for a writer that is trouble," he says...