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Most families, at some point in time, come across photographs they had forgotten about. Someone opens a drawer or a box, pulls out an album that had been gathering dust. And images from the past--memories of holidays, vacations--peel back the years' shadows. If you're part of a public family, there is a good chance such photographs might emerge on eBay. That's what happened to us. My mother, who does not own a computer, was informed that a large number of family pictures were being offered on eBay. She authorized the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (where there...
They said they would have liked to see more details on what Harvard will do to limit the negative impacts of construction, which range from dust to noise to vibrations...
...plan provides for a hotline for residents to call with concerns, designates a construction mitigation manager to respond to complaints and calls for measures to limit noise, dust, vibrations and truck traffic...
...that was his pixie-dust era. ABC, which Eisner bought for $19 billion in 1996, swung from earning $1 billion in operating income in 2000 to losing $36 million last year. Eisner blew at least $1.6 billion on Internet ventures, including the Go.com portal, and in 2001 he paid $5.2 billion for the Fox Family Channel (considered a high sum), which was renamed ABC Family and proceeded to slump in the ratings. None of this has been lost on investors: Disney stock wobbles at around $22 a share, half the heights it reached...
...competition to provide a platform for application development around IP telephony--IBM through its Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing product, and Microsoft through Windows XP on the desktop, Windows CE for wireless and its Windows and Live Communications Servers. Many analysts believe that when the dust clears, VOIP hardware will become a commodity, made by a firm like Dell, while a few communications companies will have their hand in the software pie--and that Microsoft and IBM may be calling the shots over the long term...