Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...academe's and Wall Street's most cherished models of the world. More data and faster markets, says Greenspan, mean more opportunities to make money. They also mean more chances to lose your shirt, something he calls "the increased productivity of mistakes." Computers make it possible to push a button and destroy a billion dollars of wealth. The chairman was warning about the problem long before Long-Term Capital Management vaporized $4 billion, but that debacle silenced any skeptics of the new risks...
Stephano says he thought over the possibilitiesand decided there was only one person who couldhave sent the message. He put O'Neil's name intothe blank list and pushed the "Update!" button...
...White House spin all year, repeated five times daily like a call to prayer, is that the President is going about the people's business, not obsessing about his legal defense. But he doesn't need to pull every lever and push every button in order to control the campaign machine. After two elections and a full year of fire by trial, says a top aide, "we know what he wants, when he wants it, and how he wants...
...basically suspect I need to take over a large piece of the world, give the people something useful like libraries or fruit smoothies, and get myself a cool name. I like Joel. I also like Joel, but I'm not sure I'll ever find that button on my keyboard again. I plan to amass my forces in Australia and then spread out into Asia and down into Africa, because that once worked for me in Risk...
...spend most of your time online these days, the iMac is truly a marvel of simplicity: pull it from the box, plug in the power and phone lines, click a button, and you're on the Net. That ease of use may prove as strong a draw as the chance to buy a machine that matches your decor...