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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government than that which we have come to expect from the overheated debates in Washington. It is a vision of government that neither solves problems for people nor leaves them alone to fend for themselves. Rather, Bill Clinton's winning vision is one that gives people the means to fix their own problems...
...familiar TV gimmick: Watch the characters' eyes, not their lips. Though the television industry claims to still be in negotiations with Washington over a new rating system, it is ready to consent to Washington's wishes. ABC, CBS, FOX and cable are ready to make the most likely fix, adding (S)ex, (L)anguage and (V)iolence to the current system, but only when Congress offers some sort of assurance that this is the last campaign in the ratings war. "This really is a Kabuki dance in so many ways; my lips are saying no, but my eyes are saying...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: Netscape says it will have a fix by early next week of a flaw in their Netscape 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 browsers that allows web site operators to read the contents of your hard drive. So far, this is business as usual -- Microsoft experienced a security problem with its Internet Explorer browser three months ago. The rub came earlier this week, when Cabocomm, the Danish company that discovered the bug, told Netscape it wanted to be paid what a spokesman called "a large, unspecified amount of money" to give the company the solution...
...customers? Funny thing: the customers are still reasonably happy--22 million of them show up every day--and they'll gladly take a bargain where they can get one. But McDonald's biggest problem is that customers are, increasingly, just as happy to go elsewhere for their junk-food fix: to Burger King for arguably better burgers, to Wendy's for better variety, to Starbucks and Einstein Bros. for better coffee and bagels in the morning, and to Boston Market or any number of gussied-up supermarkets for dinner. Says Greenberg: "I really believe our restaurants are running better today...
Timothy says that from the age of eight on, he would fix his father a gin-and-tonic after work, and talk with him over hors d'eouvres and carrots before dinner...