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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marketplace. Hand-held-computer makers could offer machines with Symbian's software in hopes of making them more appealing to consumers with mobile phones. Or the mobile-phone industry could beat a retreat and adopt Windows CE to ensure that their devices link up easily with existing desktop PCs. Either way, it's likely that the nations of Europe will be communicating with a single standard-- even if they are not yet talking with a unified voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Flying Phones | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

This fall the airlines are adding a new layer of complexity. As part of three major alliances--Northwest with Continental (still pending), Delta with United and American with US Airways--members will be able to earn miles on either carrier and, to a certain extent, pool them. But while that might grant flyers more options, it could also limit competition and further increase already sky-high demand for free seats. Frequent-flyer programs are shrouded in secrecy, but according to Randy Petersen, editor of the trade magazine InsideFlyer, most airlines make only about 7% of seats on a major route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frequent Flyers: It's Tougher to Get What You Want | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...negotiator, he won't give up anything now that he can use later to extract concessions. He has stopped telling his friends that a censure deal is out of the question. He may drop the legal jitterbugging, but he's not ready to admit that he lied in either of his testimonies. That can come later. "Why should he give up perjury now if that's where we want to end up?" said one presidential associate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There A Way Out? | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...guide, a lot more straight party votes may lie ahead. But proceeding with a matter as important as impeachment by strict party-line votes could be a mistake. "You can't run impeachment as a partisan matter," says University of Rochester political-science professor Richard Fenno. "For either party to ram impeachment through on the basis of a majority would not be a very happy solution for the country in general and for the party that does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Fight Like Cats & Dogs | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Unfortunately, even the most powerful existing medications, like Methotrexate, either carry unacceptable side effects or are ineffective against rheumatoid arthritis, or both. Clinicians are understandably a bit giddy, therefore, at the news that after more than a decade of no progress, not just one but a number of new treatments are all at once streaming out of research labs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arthritis Under Arrest | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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