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This past summer, hype in the computer industry grew like a German shepherd. The twin peaks of this hype were two companies: Microsoft and Netscape...
...computer software ever had such a splashy introduction. Special lights on the Empire State Building, free newspapers in London and a party in Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters with Tonight Show host Jay Leno heralded the debut of Windows 95. And the hype apparently worked: the new software, which is easier to use than previous versions and offers access to the Internet with the click of a mouse, has been selling briskly. Not that Wall Street was impressed; by week's end Microsoft stock was down...
...breakers, mountain bikers and other newcomers; in response, the surrounding county imposed a subdivision moratorium. The fight over growth in the West is sure to be intensified by the selection of Salt Lake City, Utah, as the host of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, which will bring Olympic-size hype and a flood of tourists. "The Games will accelerate the environmental assault," says Alexis Kelner, co-founder of Utahans for Responsible Public Spending, a group against staging the Games locally. "The area can't take all the condos, hotels and shopping centers that will now flow...
Nine Months for all its hype, is not one of the summer's blockbuster hits, and moviegoers who expect to be bowled over by superlative acting or striking messages will come away from the theatre disappointed...
...defining presidential speech on the issue, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick announced that Clinton would not "be intimidated" by aSupreme Court rulingthat jeopardizes programs that award federal contracts to minority businesses. "The Administration, through the president's speech, is making clear that we favoraffirmative actionwithout hype, without fear and without apology," Patrick said during a minority business summit on Capitol Hill. If the programs can't survive the Court's tough standards, he added, they "can, and should, be modified so that they meet that challenge...