Word: chunks
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...fault Microsoft's dogged determination to have a piece of every possible future. Last year Gates bought a $5 billion chunk of AT&T so he could start churning out the software for Ma Bell's cable set-top boxes. Later this year Microsoft and Israeli firm Gilat will launch a new satellite service called Gilat-To-Home that promises to deliver the Web at speeds of up to 400K. In late 2001, Microsoft's Internet-ready video-game console, the X-box, is slated to hit store shelves in time for X-mas sales. And, yes, by then there...
...These results have clearly raised the interest of many states. But unlike innovations in elementary education, such as charter schools and voucher programs, changes to public university systems happen to an entire state at a time - and that's a pretty big chunk of the population to experiment with. The problem is that the fate of this policy, which stands to affect so many, very soon, seems destined to be decided by cross-party bickering rather than reasoned debate...
...contemporary--on a geological scale, of course--it was only 49,000 years ago that an iron asteroid blasted out Arizona's three-quarter-mile-wide Meteor Crater, almost certainly killing any living creatures for hundreds of miles around. As recently as 1908, a small rocky asteroid or chunk of a comet exploded five miles above the Tunguska region of Siberia, felling trees, starting fires and killing wildlife over an area of more than 1,000 sq. mi. Had the blast, now estimated at tens of megatons, occurred over New York City or London, hundreds of thousands would have died...
...refusal to follow polls. Fine, but why the hostility? "May I make something really clear to you once again, and I hope this pleases you. I don't care what the polls say," he told the Times. Set aside the fact that Bush has spent a fair chunk of his $70 million on public-opinion surveys. Aren't polls simply an expression of the will of the people? Last week the Republicans in Congress, having read a few polls that showed Americans want their leaders to be fiscally prudent, reversed field and put forth a tax cut smaller than Bush...
...making like $32 million, and they stopped the fight. I was making $320, and we went on. He wears that little tiny chunk out of his ear like it's a badge of honor. That's not an injury...