Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this impasse is more study, a compromise that passed the House last Friday. But even if the Senate eventually goes along, the research will delay for at least a year any decision to finally use taggants. "And then the N.R.A. will likely find some other way to kill the idea," says Representative Charles Schumer, disgustedly...
...consumer: a hardworking breadwinner who settles down after dinner with his feet up and his thumb on the remote. So Tim Bajarin, an analyst at the research firm Creative Strategies, was curious about how the man would react to a focus-group presentation of Silicon Valley's latest hot idea: using a TV receiver to cruise the Internet. As Bajarin watched, the subject waited patiently a full 30 seconds for a sports-related Web page to fill the screen. He studied it for a minute, then looked up and asked, "When do the movies start...
...hybrid idea is attractive to computer makers, although most would prefer to add TV reception to their PC lines than get into the TV business. Direct-mail giant Gateway 2000 is already selling Destination, a $3,500-to-$4,500 hybrid TV-PC. NetTV, Inc. introduced its competing WorldVision in March, and Compaq and RCA are expected to follow suit early next year...
Johnson came up with the idea of the Danger Zone four years ago, after food poisoning took him out of the Barcelona Olympics. He felt he needed to psychically bridge the gap between the 400 and the 200. Even coach Hart, a folksy Texan who prefers to sit at the halfway mark of a race so he can time Michael's split, goes along with the transition, filling the sprinter's head with tough and fast imagery in the days between the two races. Agent Hunt and Johnson had hoped to promote their Danger Zone line of merchandise last week...
Although Harvard administrators said they have not yet discussed the idea with CLAB, they said underage drinking is an ongoing concern for the University...