Word: contently
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...venture capitalists had a phrase that stuck with us, We are not investing in you to be No. 2. When you launch, you have to declare victory. Initial financing came from America Online. It needed content. People liked the fact that we were dealing with a life stage when there is so much need for information to inform purchase decisions. Hummer Winblad invested to empower the e-commerce component of the business, a wedding gift registry. When qvc invested, it was interested in helping us build our brand. We had only $1.7 million in the beginning, and then we reached...
...more in the upscale Central Administrative District by next March. A 47-channel package, which includes Russian-language versions of Animal Planet and Fox Kids, costs $12 a month. (Unlimited high-speed Web service adds $61.) "This is a unique opportunity for us. Muscovites want exposure to Western content," Baker says. His partner in this project? CCTV chairman Yuri Pripachkin, a former captain in the Soviet army. --By Sean Gregory
...best to move forward on issues of implementation. Jorge I. Dominguez, professor of Mexican and Latin American politics and economics, asked if “good departmental courses” would need to meet the multidisciplinary threshold in order to fulfill Gen Ed credit. Harris responded that while multidisciplinary content will be one criterion, the committee expects “many or most” of the Gen Ed courses to be “well anchored in disciplines.” Addressing questions about Core categories bleeding naturally into Gen Ed ones, Harris said, “We hope...
...million uninsured with public funds if necessary or by restricting insurance companies' ability to exclude patients and thus opening the door to preventative care will reduce emergency care visits, and possibly health spending overall. But that’s the problem: some conservatives, it seems, are quite content with inefficiencies...
...control by Britain and its sovereign. Its population was heavy with Irishmen and Irishwomen, but the resentments their ancestors had brought with them soon mellowed into ineffectuality in the antipodean sun, not much more than folk costume, once the chains of convictry were abolished. As a colony, we were content peaceably to fulfill our natural destiny, which was to supply Britain with cheap wheat and wool and (when required) with cannon fodder for wars against the Boer...