Word: home
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Homegrocer.com was founded only last year, and is funded with money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the same venture capital firm that helped launch big Internet brands such as Amazon, Excite and At Home. Last month former Netscape chief executive James Barksdale invested some $5 million in the privately held online grocery company. MORE...
Naturally, I was among the takers who grabbed a beta copy from www.real.com Installation on my home PC was effortless. I threw a Meat Puppets CD into my disk drive and started listening to the first cut. In the time it took me to play a third of the 4-min. song, the whole tune (all 2.3 megabytes of it) was already neatly recorded and stored on my hard drive. While the sound quality is billed as "near CD," I couldn't tell the difference. I quickly set to work cherry picking our CD collection for my favorite songs...
...This home truth explains a great deal that seems merely shabby, not monstrous, and not puzzling enough to require three wagonloads of explication. The author may have been right, incidentally, not to present this rough man's thoughts in rough dialect. For long paragraphs, however, the words that come out of Watson's mouth are, somewhat jarringly, the worthy, scholarly, perceptive, always interesting, late 20th century observations of Peter Matthiessen. About his quirky trilogy a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many...
Katie Gray, 30, is finishing her first year of business school at Stanford University; she is eight months pregnant. Gray had been married for three years when she told her husband that she wanted to move from their home in Washington to go to business school in California. "It was a really tough decision for both of us," Gray says. "He was on track to become a partner at a firm in Washington. He didn't want to pick up and move, and I don't blame...
Tracy Johnson, 35, a lab manager for Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., based in Stratford, Conn., says he would not have considered uprooting his family from their home in Alamogordo, N.M., if the relocation package hadn't been right. Among other things, Sikorsky provided Johnson and his wife Donna, 35, with detailed information on child-care options available for their 18-month-old son Jacob. They were given the qualifications, services and costs for all day-care centers and baby-sitting services within a 15-mile radius of the new home they are purchasing in Milford. "The day-care center is gorgeous...