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...failure of the deal stirred speculation over the future of the much touted electronic superhighway, which is expected to bring into U.S. homes everything from video games, movies and news on demand to vast video shopping malls. The quest to build this highway has become the great preoccupation of the 1990s, and thus the TCI-Bell Atlantic breakup had a global resonance. The two companies combined would have been the single biggest highway builder, expecting to spend as much as $20 billion over five years toward the construction of an interactive system for American homes...
...that keeps it alive. Between insanely catchy "Woo woo woo woo ooh oohs" at the beginning of each verse, he sings lyrics like "Songs mean a lot/When songs are bought/And so are you..." In the gorgeous retro-sounding "Range Life" (I'm telling you, it could be off of Highway 61 Revisted), he takes some shots at bands who have made it their business to become huge: "Out on tour with Smashing Pumpkins/Nature kids, they don't have no function/I don't understand just what they mean/But I could really give a fuck..." Instructively, in a "lyrical references" section...
...national information highway" should play an integral role in the nation's future classrooms, the newly appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission said last nigh in a speech at the Graduate School of Education...
Epps said that his ultimate goal is to have large billboards around the Yard for equivalent banner-hanging space. Without even commenting on the aesthetic perils of free standing, highway-size advertising spaces on campus, we can definitely say that some more immediate and realistic solution is needed...
...snowsuits gazed back through a vast video screen. "I was sick-to-my-stomach nervous," she said. "I tried to drink water. My insides felt like California during the earthquake." But somehow as she zipped past red barns and sailed over moose and lynx paths down a sun-striped highway of snow, Roffe-Steinrotter summoned Olympian reserves. First in line among 56 skiers in the super-G, a cross between a downhill and a giant-slalom course, she had no one else's mistakes to guide her. "It's one day, one hill, 1 1/2 minutes," she told herself...