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...Because the competition is so fierce, Opera has been forced to rethink its strategy. For the first four years in business, the company charged $39 for its product. A lot of users discovered ways to employ the software without paying the fee, however, so last year Opera decided to try a different model. The browser was released in two versions: an ad-free one for the usual $39 and a fee-free one that contained advertisements. "We recognized we would never be able to get the number of users we hoped for without giving it away," says chief financial officer...
...second wife Brenda; and Taylor Nicole, with Teresa, his widow. He got into the business of racing, using the money from his on-track success, which would eventually burgeon to an all-time record $41.6 million, to start Dale Earnhardt Inc., an auto-racing company that would grow to employ 200 in Mooresville and field three cars on NASCAR's Winston Cup circuit...
...South Korean businesses?ranging from entrepreneurial cowboys to staid conglomerates?are testing the waters. Several now employ Korean Computer Center (KCC), a state-owned enterprise in Pyongyang, to write software. Its specialty is Mission Impossible-type programs such as voice recognition and fingertip identification. Seoul-based Deshine.com, meanwhile, is importing animated films...
...beautiful to watch, is mixing the tempo of play. Like a pitcher in baseball who follows the heater with the change-up, or the tailback in football who busts through the line on one play and dances to the outside on the next, the squash champion must employ a diverse and well-timed arsenal of shots and strategies...
...descendants of the men who tried to destroy the whole legacy of English medieval art, exalted the Word and the Idea and distrusted the visual icon. It was blasphemy to represent the face of God, idolatry to gaze on any likeness of his saints and angels, loathsome vanity to employ the arts for sensuous gratification. Hence the legendary discomfort of early Massachusetts furniture--and the almost total absence of any kind of figurative painting, other than the "shades," or family likenesses, that were needed for dynastic memory...