Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another massive merger in the Internet biz. Last week At Home picked up Excite; today Yahoo throws free home page service GeoCities into its shopping basket. The latest deal makes Yahoo much bigger, second only in reach to the mighty America Online. Quite a feat if you consider that no one's browser comes preloaded with a Yahoo home page. And what a validation for GeoCities, a company that seemed absurd as recently as last year -- will anyone ever make money on free web sites...
...large degree, where you are from is still more important than where you are at. I may spend a good deal of my time reading American literature, writing in English and studying American history, but new acquaintances will often ask me explicitly, "Where are you from...
...states spend much guarding witnesses, in part because most are not nearly as angelic as B.J. "A lot of witnesses are dirt-bags"--criminals themselves who don't want or need protection, says Eric Sterling of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. Many face incarceration and want a deal. The federal Witness Security Program is limited to people with important evidence in big cases. (Of those who get in, 98% have been involved in crimes...
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6: At 6 a.m., after 12 hours of haggling, NBA commissioner David Stern and players' union director Billy Hunter reach an agreement. By mid-afternoon, the players ratify it. Bulls guard Steve Kerr, a free agent, arrives in New York for a players' meeting to discover the deal has been made. "All of a sudden, it focused: 'Wow. We all have to get jobs,'" he says. Kerr calls his agent, who has already received half a dozen offers. Kerr, though, wasn't going to consider other offers until he knew whether Jordan was returning. Bill Wennington, the Bulls...
...admits the publisher. ?Not everything, but quite a bit.? Clearly Regan isn?t ruing the one that got away: Monica. Having snubbed a $4 million book-and-TV offer from Regan before the Starr report was out, Monica was offered less than $1 million for a book afterward. The deal died, says Regan, partly because of the Lewinsky camp?s distaste for another big-haired author of hers: Howard Stern...