Word: first
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...documentarian, is worried that his life is scrolling by too fast to remember, a life that is so fantastic as to verge on the unbelievable. So he takes plenty of pictures and awful, jittery amateur videos. At the very least, they'll help tell his story to the Bezoses' first child, a boy due in March...
Jeffrey Preston Bezos had that same experience when he first peered into the maze of connected computers called the World Wide Web and realized that the future of retailing was glowing back at him. It's not that nobody else noticed--eBay's Pierre Omidyar also knew he was on to something. But Bezos' vision of the online retailing universe was so complete, his Amazon.com site so elegant and appealing, that it became from Day One the point of reference for anyone who had anything to sell online. And that, it turns out, is everyone...
Bleary-eyed first-year doctors have long wandered the hallways of America's teaching hospitals, spurred on by superiors determined to subject their prot?g?s to the same 36-hour shifts they endured in years past. In one city, at least, this brutal, long-standing tradition could be on its last legs. On Tuesday, residents and interns at the Boston Medical Center voted 177 to 1 to be represented by a federally protected union. And while these interns and residents were already considered union members by the hospital, they were not protected by federal labor law - largely because the National Labor...
...surface, it looks like a big win for the telecom giants at the expense of the little guy: In what could be the final blow against the 1984 AT&T breakup, on Wednesday the FCC cleared the way for Bell Atlantic to become the first Baby Bell to offer long distance services. The move was decried by many of the consumer advocates who futilely fought against the Telecommunication Act of 1996, which paved the way for Baby Bells to provide long distance so long as they open their markets to competition. Earlier this year, when AT&T sought...
...playing for a New York team: "I would retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing...