Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very good at putting pressure on people. There will come a time when someone needs to reach out to both of the remaining candidates." House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Gov. Christie Todd Whitman think that time has already come. Whitman, a longtime friend of Forbes, said his flat-tax plan would have a better chance of being a part of the GOP platform if Forbes would withdraw from the race. Gingrich said Buchanan is only hurting himself be remaining in the race. "The longer Pat campaigns, the less effect he's going to have. He's made...
...Forbes' flat-tax plan and his libertarian bent on abortion will play well in California, which is another reason Wilson has been warning Dole for weeks about the publisher. Forbes' base tends to be wealthy social libertarians, but he continues to draw his votes from alienated independents who see Washington as a threat to individual rights and want someone to shake the place to its foundations...
...find they wouldn't want to live there--at least for long. Commercial online services like America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy have made the Net accessible to millions at an hourly rate, making it all too easy to run up hundreds of dollars a month in connection charges. Smaller, flat-rate, local-access providers like Netcom or PSInet have championed flat-rate service that allows unlimited access at $20 to $30 a month but can't always keep up with demand; busy phone lines have led many users to give up in frustration. The outcome: service that is pricey...
...dramatically last week when mammoth AT&T announced that it would offer its regular residential telephone customers--all 80 million of them--five hours of free access to the Internet each month, or unlimited access for $19.95 a month, on its newly announced Worldnet access service. Suddenly, the right flat rate and the right number of phone lines were in the same place, and the entire Internet-service industry seemed on the verge of a brutal shake-out. At week's end AOL's share price dropped 15%, from 53 7/8 to 45 3/4, while the stock of Netcom Online...
...leaves, he goes amiably nuts, brushing the fur of his stuffed animals, talking to a bar of soap ("You've lost a lot of weight--you need more self-confidence!"). He's just the lost soul for a fast-food cook (punk pixie Faye Wang) who sneaks into his flat each day for some erotomaniacal housecleaning. It's a match made in Hong Kong heaven...