Word: falle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chef, butler and host's suite--for a mere $200,000. The stock-option challenged can find Strip accommodations for a (relatively) less exorbitant $400 a night, and those are selling more briskly. But hotel rooms, which the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority predicted would sell out by fall, are still going begging, and major resorts are slashing their inflated rates by hundreds of dollars a night...
...longer have to choose between cyberlife and social life. Suddenly everybody is doing computer call waiting. This summer Actiontec became the first company to sell a call-waiting modem. And this fall software-only services are popping up everywhere. Callwave, Pagoo and Prodigy all offer programs you can download from their websites and use for up to $5 a month. In October MSN launched a $5-a-month, members-only service in Atlanta, Seattle and San Diego and plans to go nationwide by March. Research firm IDC predicts that more than a quarter of U.S. households will use an Internet...
Soon Lurie has begun his own tragic fall, becoming obsessed with a student and forcing himself on her. Is it rape? He quickly decides not, but the young woman reports him to the university, and Lurie, fired and discredited, closes up his house and goes to visit his daughter Lucy, who lives on a farm in the Eastern Cape...
Giuliani's attempt last year to put a homeless shelter in the district of an uncooperative councilman eventually fizzled, but this fall alone city hall has cut off funds from a museum whose paintings the mayor found offensive, torpedoed the federal grants of an AIDS service organization whose protest tactics irritated the mayor, and informed some state legislators who voted against the city's position on a tax bill that they would not be permitted on the stand at the Yankees ticker-tape parade. (The first two actions were reversed by courts on First Amendment grounds; the barred legislators...
...digital consumer has never been better served--by the boom online in e-commerce and by the huge selection in physical stores. This year's guide is a testament to technology's sophistication in the face of cyber-driven competition and immense demand for products whose prices fall at a giddy pace while their power only grows. Here are our best bets for you right...