Word: hosts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indignant at her treatment by authorities. Says neighbor Anne Fabie: "We send people to prison to rehabilitate them so they can become the kind of person Sara is today. It would serve no purpose to incarcerate her." That depends on whether imprisonment is reformation or punishment. Says John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted: "She's led a good life and done good deeds, but if you have tried to kill cops, you're going to be in trouble...
...myth goes something like this: acquire computer skills (skillz, in the jargon), join an aggressive start-up and, when the company goes public, cash in and make millions of dollars. It worked for Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Yahoo's Jerry Yang, C-Net's Halsey Minor and a host of others. When will it work...
Skat, the Web host, looks up from her monitor and says, "Pseudo is about hiring young kids who live the Net and don't know about equity positions." As for Skat, well, she's a little older now, and she's working out her own deal--which will, of course, include stock options...
...squad, led by Hamm and a host of experienced players, ranks as the favorite among the 16 competing nations. Yet defending champion Norway, as well as China or Brazil, could also win the trophy. The U.S. women won the first Cup in China in 1991. Four years later, Norway won the crown in Sweden. But at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the U.S. beat China 2-1 to win the gold--although few viewers got to see that achievement, since NBC gave the game short shrift. ("NBC thinks the world is made up of divers," fumed Hank Steinbrecher, U.S. Soccer...
Indeed, you could say Kasparov is experimenting on us. The idea of playing a match in cyberspace was his, and the grand master has carefully controlled the setup from start to finish. He chose the game's host--Microsoft--for its software and marketing muscle. He insisted on up-and-coming chess prodigies to lead the world team--rather than more famous rivals like Anatoly Karpov or Nigel Short--so it wouldn't become a grudge match. And he set the 24-hr. gap between moves to ensure an antiseptic game, with none of the silly blunders...