Word: launch
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...plans to shut down its trading floor by the end of the year, and the Japanese, Koreans and Germans are rapidly moving in that direction. Now comes one of the biggest steps toward a global computerized marketplace: this week Reuters and the two major Chicago commodities exchanges plan to launch a system called Globex, a 24-hour electronic trading system for futures and options contracts. Eventually it and similar systems could handle stocks, bonds and any other trades, virtually eliminating the need for trading floors in New York City and other financial capitals...
Perot has acknowledged lately that Margot's $1,000 check to get EDS started, which he keeps as a memento, represented only the registration fee Texas required to charter a new corporation. He and his wife had, and used, a great deal more than that to launch EDS. Perot was making $20,000 a year as a part- time employee of Texas Blue Cross-Blue Shield, and Margot brought home a second salary as a full-time schoolteacher. This, however, is a rare case of Perot deflating a tall story; more distressing than any of the disputes about individual incidents...
...large swath of pop culture from the past quarter-century. Virtually every stand-up comedy routine is a regurgitation of Dave Berg's Lighter Side strips. Underground artists from R. Crumb on have taken inspiration from Harvey Kurtzman (Gaines' editorial genius, who left after four years to launch a doomed satirical magazine for Hugh Hefner) and Mad's dense, rude cartoon style. Parodies of advertising and TV did not really exist before Mad invented the form. Ernie Kovacs, along with Bob and Ray, wrote free-lance for Gaines in the '50s, and Kovacs and Mad begat Saturday Night Live...
...could help get things done in Washington. But Schwarzkopf, who reportedly has turned down Perot at least twice, regards the * Texan with dismay as a loose cannon. Besides, he is believed to have political aspirations of his own, and third parties are no place for national heroes to launch a second career...
...Beyond [global consciousness raising], I don't think there are enough teeth in the protocols which have been developed so far to launch the initiatives which are most needed," said Baird Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson...