Word: decaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your basic movie-mogul breakfast menu would include strawberries, decaf, a splash of Evian, maybe a Diet Coke. But Harvey Weinstein has never got with fit-for-life cuisine. One morning at the recent Sundance Film Festival, the co-chairman of Miramax Films eagerly devoured a greasy omelette (the secret ingredient: cholesterol) while schmoozing with a reporter about art, movies and life in general. It's been said that a family of four could subsist for a month on the crumbs that stick to Weinstein's shirt. That family may soon need to find other means of dietary support...
...money devotees like Valerie Baptiste, a San Francisco secretary, think cash is passe. Baptiste pays for her morning bagel and decaf with a smart card designed by Britain's Mondex and being tested in the U.S. with partners that include Wells Fargo and AT&T. As other customers fumble with change, Baptiste hands her card to a cashier who takes less than five seconds to punch it into a machine that deducts $2.15 from the stored-up funds. "This is the beginning of the end of cash," Baptiste says. Unless banks charge swiftly into the E-money era, it could...
...fill that hole, Netscape has entered into a tight alliance with Sun Microsystems, a high-end hardware and software company that has developed a Net-based programming language called Java. What makes Java special (besides its name, which comes from the take-no-prisoners, drink-no-decaf corporate culture at Sun) is that it is designed to run across the Internet on any computer. For Web programmers, this means their pages can do more than just display pictures. Java-enabled sites will be able to act as word processors, telephones and even (if you have a TV receiver hooked...
...uneducated, the first is a medium-sized drink with one shot of espresso, one shot of decaf espresso and steamed and frothed skim milk, while the second is a large drink with espresso and hot water added, not quite full for the customer to add milk or cream...
...little hard for most people to understand how a President of the United States, with Air Force One always ready and 93 servants hovering to make his bed and bring him decaf and the Marine Band playing Hail to the Chief at every whipstitch, can go around feeling sorry for himself...