Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What if Apple didn't exist? Think about it. TIME wouldn't get published next week. Some 70% of the newspapers in the U.S. wouldn't publish tomorrow morning. Some 60% of the kids wouldn't have computers; 64% of the teachers wouldn't have computers. More than half the Websites created on Macs wouldn't exist," he says. "So there's something worth saving here...
...platform by pledging three years' worth of Mac versions of its office software and cooperation with Apple on upcoming products. Apple's richest boon, though, may be psychological; by promising to publish Mac software into the next century, Microsoft lets Mac customers and developers alike trust the platform to exist that long. And Apple cultists don't need much encouragement to stay psyched. "Macintosh customers have proved to be incredibly stubborn," says Roger McNamee, co-founder of the high-tech investment firm Interval Partners, "and where there are stubborn customers, there is hope." Sales of the recently released...
...Manager wealthy? He certainly doesn't feel that way. Still, he's thankful that the new tax bill at least doesn't hurt him. Sure, he believes there's a fundamental inequity about income thresholds for tax breaks and thinks that if they must exist, they should be higher. But he knows it would not be politically correct for someone of his means to complain. So he won't. That's why I'm doing...
...Iowa) to routing New York City calls to a specific set of operators who might have heard of the stock exchange or Grand Central Terminal. "We are cleaning it up," says AT&T spokeswoman Pat Mallon. She cites Silicon Valley and Long Island as recent successes, but problems still exist in some vital areas like Washington, because the city covers three area codes and its information systems don't "talk" to one another. There's still some work to be done. Earlier this year, a request for Squaw Valley, the famous ski resort in California where the 1960 Winter Olympics...
...surprising extent, solutions to the problem of overfishing also exist, at least on paper, and that's what critics of the fishing industry find so encouraging--and so frustrating. Last year, for example, Congress passed landmark legislation that requires fishery managers to crack down on overfishing in U.S. waters. Perhaps even more impressive, the U.N. has produced a tough-minded treaty that promises to protect stocks of fish that straddle the coastal zones of two or more countries or migrate, as bluefin tuna and swordfish do, through international waters in the wide-open oceans. The treaty will take effect, however...