Word: launching
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...Serbs to heel fast enough. "You want to know the truth?" asked a senior State Department official who had urged a tougher assault against Milosevic. "We don't think we've accomplished anything." That frustration, in part, led NATO to speed up the pace of its bombing, to launch a precision cruise-missile attack that set key ministries in the heart of Belgrade aflame Saturday morning, to plan a massive pounding over the Easter weekend and to prepare for a much broader campaign--one that will look less like a video game and an awful lot like conventional declared...
With its own auction launch, Amazon continues its mutation from bookseller to e-tailer nonpareil. The auction area is carrying tens of thousands of items, including a signed copy of Hem-ingway's A Farewell to Arms--Amazon will, of course, be strong in rare books. "Our vision is to build a place to find and discover anything our customers might want to buy...[including] car parts and spark plugs," says Bezos, whose firm's ever inflating stock price jumped an additional 15% on the news. Says Larry Schwartz, president of rival Auction Universe: "It's kind of frightening--they...
Patner, 36, a former stylist, and Bradley, 32, a freelance designer who had worked for Calvin Klein, were emboldened to launch their own line when they determined, as Bradley puts it, that "women were looking for something to buy in a shade that wasn't beige." Their instinct was right. At the posh boutique Ultimo in Chicago and Dallas, half of Tuleh's spring '99 line was sold, through orders, before the clothes even reached the stores...
...that give them the jitters. To forestall any Strangelovian mishaps, NORAD intends to create a "joint confidence center" and has invited Russian officials to join them in mid-December at a scaled-down command post. If computer screens in Russia go dark or mistakenly signal a U.S. missile launch, their team here can flash the word home over a hot line that it's a false alarm before someone over there hits the attack buttons. The Russians, especially in light of Kosovo, have been cool to the proposal, but NORAD intends to go ahead and build the facility, which could...
Andrew S. Chung '01 and Matthew C. Ebbel '00 were each awarded $2,500 for a Web site they created called HarvardMarket.com. Chung and Ebbel will use their winnings to launch their business with the aid of Fidelity Investments...