Word: hugeness
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Electronic delivery is already a huge threat. Faxes and E-mail have taken a $6 billion bite out of postal revenues in recent years. The damage could spread as software makers perfect electronic signatures that senders can use to authenticate their E-mail messages, thereby reducing the need for hard copies of such documents as wills and contracts. The post office is fighting back with some wizardry of its own in the form of an "electronic postmark"--a digital time stamp that, for a fee, can be used to certify that E-mail has been transmitted...
...Postal Service has a huge sideline business, its No. 2 money earner: selling information about you to marketers. The USPS compiles and sells the country's most complete demographic data on consumer tastes and interests. "We know who skis, who fly-fishes, who goes to the movies," says chief operating officer William Henderson. Such detailed information can serve as the basis for targeted advertising, as opposed to plain old junk mail. Henderson says this advertising is "the fastest-growing segment of first-class mail." Internet services can play the same game, of course, and have been compiling their own data...
...huge success the first time we did it," Lin said. "I don't see why we won't do it again...
...show. If the two sides fail to agree, then Warner Bros. can negotiate with the other networks. Leslie Moonves, the president of CBS, developed ER when he was a Warner executive and is particularly eager to land it. Reportedly the studio will ask for $10 million an episode, a huge increase over the nearly $2 million NBC now pays. Of course, Seinfeld's demise only makes Warner Bros.' bargaining position stronger. (Castle Rock, which produces Seinfeld, is also part of Time Warner...
...wholly due to the structural fragility of Korean economics. Capitalism, with its excessive investments and surplus accumulation of wealth, is the driving force behind the pressing economic uncertainty that all Asian countries, including Japan, are now experiencing. With billions of dollars flying around the world in speculative investments and huge hedge funds, the liberalization of financial and capital markets has directly contributed to the crisis in Korea. But the hardships of Koreans could be trivial compared to what others will soon experience. South Korea will feel a burn, but other parts of the world will feel conflagration. NAM SOOHYOUN Seoul...