Word: isn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bumper stickers printed up: ASK ME ABOUT MY CABLE MODEM! For months, years even, I've been stalking my local phone and cable monopolies, only to be told that broadband access to the Net wasn't yet available on my block. The phone company's offering, known as DSL, isn't even on the horizon where I live on Long Island, N.Y. It was my cable monopoly, Cablevision, that finally won the race to my house...
...Parliament, than for position in the June 2000 presidential elections. The success of the Luzhkov-Primakov alliance in next weekend's vote will decide whether current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin can expect to coast into the presidency next June or will have to face a serious challenger. Luzhkov isn't running for the Duma next weekend, but in the peculiar world of Russian politics, he is vying, through Fatherland, for a shot at controlling Russia's future...
...investigation isn't over yet. FBI agents and State investigators are trying to determine the damage by interviewing people who attended 50 to 100 conferences held in the bugged room. They are also exploring whether State Department insiders were co-conspirators, or whether Russian agents simply exploited State's easy-going security policies, which, until August, did not require escorts for diplomats and other visitors. To fabricate the chair-rail molding, match the paint and install it, officials say, Russian intelligence operatives must have gained access to the seventh-floor conference room on several occasions, with sufficient time to take...
...course, Santa isn't going to transform us into little Spielbergs any more than the typewriter created a nation of Fitzgeralds or desktop publishing made our yard-sale flyers look like ads from Madison Avenue. But talent aside, recent advances have made it pretty painless to churn out, say, a half-hour short and give it a global audience inside of a week. If you ever suspected there was a movie inside you, now's your chance...
...York City isn't the only place with bad apples. A schoolteacher in Atlanta was caught distributing advance copies of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, and another in northern Georgia was cited when seven of his special-ed students scored a perfect 600 on the language portion of the test. Dan Erling, a respected sixth-grade math instructor in Atlanta, left the profession in disgust over what he felt was rampant cheating. He estimates that as many as 15% of his incoming students had inflated test scores because of improper help from teachers, such as telling students...