Word: junks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Girsky thinks the company needs to junk 27 models to eliminate redundancy and stop competing with itself. Take the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird. In their heyday, the sporty siblings divided up a broad and profitable market of muscle-car enthusiasts. These days, though, muscle mania has waned, and the pair is left slugging it out in a narrowing segment. GM execs may want to keep at least one of the offerings to compete with the popular Ford Mustang, but they are faced with a dilemma: both cars are built in the same plant in Quebec, and killing one would...
...never hear a line of either Henry's or Simon's work. One or both may have great lyrical beauty and ethical depth; one or both may be junk. It matters not, for this is less a tale of literary gamesmanship than a parable of friendship. What would you do for a friend, a lover, the family you feel trapped by? Who deserves your most annihilating sacrifice? What are friends for, anyway...
Junior second baseman Peter Woodfork remembered the dictum that you take outside junk the other way and punched a line-drive single into right...
...know that mine is a minority perspective and that the typical Net user is furious about spam. And with good reason: By some estimates, unsolicited junk messages account for more than 15% of all Internet e-mail--and as much as 30% on America Online, where spammers' "robots" cruise chat rooms to collect screen names. Spam is particularly obnoxious because, unlike the direct-mail solicitations that come via the postman, the online recipient pays the delivery cost...
Some important folks believe legislation represents the best chance for eradicating junk e-mail. I'm dubious: U.S. laws can be enforced only within U.S. borders. Unfortunately, a bill sponsored by Senators Frank Murkowski (R., Alaska) and Robert Torricelli (D., N.J.), which unanimously passed the Senate on May 13 and is being considered by the House, might actually aggravate the spam scene. The bill would fine junk mailers who hide their return addresses--that is, the vast majority of spammers. It would require them to list their real snail-mail addresses, telephone numbers and legal names. And supposedly, spammers would...