Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfectly respectable garden can be had virtually for free. The price is paid in muscle and devotion, applied to a few packages of seeds, some cuttings from a neighbor, a pile of compost distilled from last fall's leaves. To the purists, paying someone extravagant sums to install an instant garden is like hiring someone to have great...
...these intersecting demands -- for instant gardens and exotic ones, for status plants and designer landscapes -- converge to boost the catalog business. The largest seed company, Burpee, alone sent out 6 million catalogs this year, up 20% from last year. Novices can buy a book, Gardening by Mail, just to help them shop. Author Barbara Barton guesses that there are between 1,200 and 1,500 catalogs covering just seeds, plants, bulbs, trees and shrubs, plus an additional 1,000 garden-related catalogs with everything from ornaments and greenhouse kits to clothes and tools...
...Arthur Sulzberger Jr. released a noncommittal statement. "We'll take a careful look at it," he said, "and make a journalistic decision about whether to publish it in our pages." Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse, OMNI and other magazines, had no such hesitation. "I would do it in an instant," he said, offering not only to print the manuscript, but also to put the full weight of his company's public-relations machinery into making sure it is widely read. "This is the philosophical ramblings of a tortured mind. We'll print it exactly the way he wants...
...master strategist-or at least it seemed so at the time. When Bill Gates announced last October that Microsoft would buy Intuit -- maker of the popular "electronic-checkbook" program Quicken -- it looked as if the software giant would not only eliminate a meddlesome competitor but also gain an instant beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal investigation of Microsoft by negotiating a consent decree...
That is ultimately untenable in a world of instant communications that cross all frontiers. And in a global marketplace the notion that authoritarian rule can be combined with free enterprise-the notion might be called Lee Kuan Yewism, for Singapore's Godfather-cannot work indefinitely. The U.S. maintains that countries aspiring to membership in nato, in the European Union or in the wider community of developed nations must respect democracy, free enterprise and human rights. But Washington is notably passive in promoting freedom of the press...