Word: laptopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large open areas like parking lots and highways. To search narrow streets and buildings, as many as 100 two-person teams, dressed as inconspicuously as possible, are sent on foot patrols. One team member carries a special radiation detector designed to be hidden in briefcases, student backpacks, laptop computer bags--even beer coolers, in the case of a threat to vaporize the Super Bowl...
...lobbyists get in return? Awe-inspiring access to the legislative process, including the right to write the bills themselves, like the one passed last February that imposed a 13-month moratorium on federal regulations. During floor debate, the Gucci set stood close by, typing out on their laptop computers the talking points that Republican leaders would use on the floor. Gingrich's money operation is now purring: during the first six months of this year House Republicans received nearly 60% of the campaign contributions given by the top 400 pacs. Last year Democrats got two-thirds of such contributions...
...malls this Friday--the day after Thanksgiving is traditionally the year's busiest shopping day, with more than $2 billion in sales--the outlines of what's hot and what's not this Christmas are swiftly becoming clear. Topping most wish lists are consumer-electronics items ranging from Apple laptop computers that can cost thousands of dollars to kid's gadgets like Ricochet, a big-wheeled, radio-controlled car by Hasbro that sells for about $55. Educational cd-rom titles, such as Reader Rabbit and the Encarta encyclopedia, and videogame players like Sony's new 32-bit PlayStation...
Michael Spindler, chief executive officer of Apple Computer, must be hoping bad things don't occur in fours. First, the company issued a recall on its new high-end laptop after two of them burst into flames at Apple offices. Then Apple reported that its quarterly earnings would be significantly below expectations, largely because the company could not produce computers fast enough. The third blow was Wall Street's swift reaction, which sent Apple shares plummeting by 15% of their value in two days. The fourth thing...
More on Windows 95 later in the term. In the meantime, I should mention before closing this week that Apple has just released a new line of laptops that reaffirm the PowerBook's position as the premier portable computing solution. If you are in the market for a laptop, take a close look at the new 5300-series Power-Books...