Word: keenness
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Investors are increasingly keen to buy into Internet-related companies, but have had few opportunities. Four such companies have gone public: Internet-access providers Netcom On-line Communications Services, Performance Systems International and UUNet Technologies; and another Web-browser maker, Spyglass. All are performing extremely well because the Internet is regarded as the next stage of the information revolution. Now that computers are being linked around the globe, techno-happy investors are trying to stay ahead of that curve and find the next big company. Netscape, says Lise Buyer, technology analyst at T. Rowe Price, "has the potential...
Haden first caught Jones on recordings, playing behind Parker. Haden had worked up a keen ear for all kinds of music from early on. His parents were country musicians who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry and started their boy performing at age four. Some Sundays in Springfield, Missouri, Haden's mother would take him on outings to the African-American church. "We would quietly go in the door after everybody and sit in the back and listen to the music," he says. "That was one of the most moving experiences of my young life...
...became clear that the prospect of liberation was an illusion, residents of Sarajevo found their optimism choked off. Hope, like everything else inside the city, now needs to be rationed carefully; overindulging only makes the want of it more keen. Last Wednesday afternoon about 50 people were on the street in the suburb of Dobrinja. The day was sunny, and many were digging in the makeshift vegetable gardens that Sarajevans have taken to cultivating in whatever scrap of dirt they can find. Suddenly, a Serb shell lanced in, killing six people. "The Serbs always like to catch us at such...
Major's bid to pull the party together behind him should not be underestimated. He is a keen political infighter--as his election victory in April 1992 showed--and he has picked the time and place for the battle...
While cyberspace is still a murky universe for many grownups, it is becoming a playground of vibrant invention for more and more of America's children. TIME got a keen sense of just how innovative these computer kids can be when we invited students from the U.S. and Canada to submit their online creations to our first Internet contest...