Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't happy with the idea of inhaling second-hand smoke all year, but other non-smokers assured us that they hadn't had problems," she said...
...been pondering the idea for a long time for acquiring funds from other Muslim nations with the help of Harvard," Watanabe says...
Almost everyone considered that a perfectly ridiculous idea. Since 1985, when he founded the company that would become America Online, Case has jousted continually with the doubters. Even his loyal board members lost the faith: in 1987, after a particularly rough patch, they were ready to fire him until someone argued that surely Case had learned something while spending millions without a penny of profit. Whatever that was didn't seem apparent as his online service hit rock bottom last winter, suffering through one gaffe after another--remember the mess over busy signals?--leaving Case exhausted and his critics smirking...
...deal goes through--and it will certainly get a hard look from antitrust officials--AOL will have 12 million members, almost six times as many as its nearest competitor, the Microsoft Network. But while the news was big, AOL had no idea the coup would so clearly signal that the company had finally arrived. As congratulatory calls poured in, AOL employees shared a moment of collective corporate shock: "Well, I guess Steve was right...
...night club or restaurant, it is not a bad idea to ask to be taken through the kitchen...