Word: grails
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...margins of a bookstore, or even a book-CD-video-toys-electronic store with the odd auction thrown in (which last year had sales of $1 billion and zero earnings as usual). To stay ahead of the curve, Amazon needs to build the ultimate e-commerce portal: the holy grail; the must-have home page for all online shoppers. And for that you need a shopping agent...
Manufacturers hope the ease of the interface will win over people who have given up mastering their VCRs. The result, if users embrace it, is the telefuturist's grail: TV on demand. "It takes away the meaning of prime time," says Rob Enderle, an analyst at Giga Information Group. "The time a show is broadcast becomes meaningless." ReplayTV allows users to create "channels" based on search criteria, like home-improvement shows or Steve McQueen movies. TiVo lets you search by category and makes recommendations based on how you have rated other programs...
Because as they look back on how they got here and at what lies ahead, some crusaders realize they may have missed the chance of a lifetime. By making a balanced budget the Holy Grail, conservatives never got around to the conversation they really care about: What size budget should be balanced? One trillion? Two? Half a trillion? How much of the nation's wealth should remain in private hands, and how much controlled by the federal Treasury? Hardly anyone imagined the day would come when the brakes came off, the deficit vanished and it would be possible to balance...
...cure for cancer might be modern medicine's holy grail, the greatest medical discovery since the polio vaccine...
...stayed impossible to contact until late into the evening. After the weeks of speculation, of endlessly replaying movie trailers, of hunting out "insider" Internet sites and comparing notes, rabid fans of the most successful movie series ever took that final step towards the attainment of their very own Holy Grail. Tickets to "Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace" had at last gone on sale...