Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bases loaded in the 10th inning of Game 4, the rope by Luis Polonia that froze an entire nation with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of Game 5--and the wall-banging celebration of Paul O'Neill after he caught the ball at the last instant. Best of all, there was the just reward for Torre after 37 years in baseball. In order to win his first World Series, the 56-year-old native New Yorker did something truly extraordinary--he gave the Yankees back their identity. They are no longer George Steinbrenner's team, though...
...Slowly at first, the anxiety began to take on a shape that could be sensed if not exactly foreseen. On all the world's stock exchanges, prices had leaped up too far, too fast, to be sustained. The mood in the markets shifted from fantasy about instant wealth to nervousness about an inevitable 'correction' (a wonderful euphemism). By Monday morning the concern was no longer vague but had taken on physical form--piles of papers littering brokers' desks, each representing a hastily scribbled order to sell stock; rows of numbers flashing on computer screens, bringing news of alarming price breaks...
...CONTROL] Opposed gun-control measures in the Senate, including the Brady bill. Favors replacing its five-day waiting period with an instant, computerized background check. Opposed the assault-weapons ban, but doesn't advocate repeal...
...rock stars have fretted more about the fallout of such instant success than Adam Duritz, the Crows' lead singer and chief songwriter. "I couldn't go out. I couldn't go to bars. Everybody had to give their opinion of me," he recalls. Once, he says, "for seven days in a row, someone walked up to me on the street and said something shitty. Just out of the blue, people I didn't know. 'Hey--are you Adam Duritz?' 'Yeah.' 'You're in Counting Crows?' 'Yeah.' 'Man, you ought to be counting your blessings. You guys suck...
...manual for the new digital economy, plus a how-to for managers worried about their business and, by extension, their career. This book is about finding rational ways to survive what Grove calls the "10x"--tenfold--factors that can threaten to change everything about a business in an instant. Just as the car turned horse buggies into curiosities, new technology like the Internet, Grove predicts, will render obsolete hundreds of businesses that are thriving today. The lessons Grove has learned in building Intel into a giant resonate beyond the inside of a PC. "People who try and fight the wave...