Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media stardom into mass media acceptance. Does this help give the Internet an acclaimed status as the home for news in the next century? The problem with Drudge is that a Web page is cheap, e-mail is essentially free, and no one checks your resume at the door before signing you up for a domain name. In a wired world, Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw hold no monopoly over the news. Anyone with a connection to the Internet can open his or her own site, be it timely news or unverified gossip...
Some of Iraq's next-door neighbors are afraid the country will fall apart if the U.S. hits it too hard. With Iraq pulverized, Iran becomes the biggest military power in the area. If the Shi'ite southern area of Iraq breaks away, Shi'ite Iran might gobble it up and move on to Saudi Arabia's eastern province, also Shi'ite and home to the kingdom's most important oil fields. At the same time, Iran would be deeply worried if the northern segment of Iraq were to break away and create an independent Kurdistan. Turkey and Syria share...
...Digest, while it accounts for only 26% of the company's revenues, provides the brand name that has been used as a front door to roll out a range of books, music and videos, sold mostly through direct marketing. These home and entertainment divisions bring in the bulk of the sales and profits. Recent attempts to move into new markets through joint ventures with Avon (to sell magazines with makeup) and Microsoft (to create CD-ROMs) have been unsuccessful. At Digest's immensely profitable overseas businesses, which accounted for 57% of its revenues last year, sales have fallen from...
...from which Dolly sprang. Cloning an embryo from a fetal cell, of course, would not be as big a deal. What made the Dolly experiment so extraordinary was that Wilmut had managed to get the DNA of an adult cell to revert to its early embryonic state, opening the door to the cloning of a cell from full-grown human, say, a Michael Jordan or a Bill Gates...
...some of whom carry guns. But hey, Italians have been good thinkers going back to Michelangelo, haven't they? And, by God, "the tradition continues!" Joe bellows at the sausage feed, a fist thrust into the air. And then he lets the applause blow him out the door and into the rain...