Word: buzzword
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...superpower spent $425 million to buy and promote a system that married the brains of the personal computer with the entertainment value of television, allowing people to surf the Internet and watch Seinfeld on the same monitor. Like a lot of doomed info-age ideas, it had its own buzzword: convergence, a concept that predicted the blurring of boundaries between smart boxes (the PC) and dumb ones (the TV). Problem was, people loved their idiot box just the way it was, idiotic. So the PC stayed in the living room, a disappointed Microsoft renamed WebTV...
...only by increasing consumer debt - raising larger economic doubts. Yes, Finland's Nokia showed that mobiles can still make money; but Motorola didn't. And while shares in German software-maker sap rocketed 32%, investors worried about companies cutting costs rather than raising sales. Volatility is the new buzzword: yet London's market ended the week up 5%, Germany's up 7%, and New York's up 6%. In short, stocks may have found their bottom. The bad news? They may go back for another visit. INDICATORS Boeing Gets Bounced For the first time ever, Airbus is set to deliver...
Which raises the question, If home design can jeopardize a relationship, can it begin one too? Since Sept. 30, HGTV has been trying to find out on the blind-date home show Love by Design. (Notice that buzzword design again. Who does anything as declasse as "decorating" anymore?) One single visits a stranger's pad for a surprise home renovation and, just maybe, a little somethin'-somethin' afterward. A silly idea, sure, but what better way to preview your future than to see what your prospective mate, given the chance, would do to your piles of CD jewel boxes...
With three new hires and a goal of attracting five more in the next two years, transition is the buzzword in the Afro-American studies department, says Gates...
Officially the summit, which wrapped up last week in Johannesburg, was to discuss and agree upon a plan for sustainable development, that much-discussed but little-understood buzzword of the moment. But at times the main U.N. talkfest, held in the upmarket suburb of Sandton, Africa's richest square mile, was lost in the gaggle of voices and slogans surrounding the conference. At the Ubuntu Village (ubuntu is Zulu for humanity), booths touting the environmental credentials of multinational oil companies stood beside those of tiny green groups. One promoted the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi as environmentally friendly. "Gandhi was green...