Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speakers will launch a discussion of social issues from a look at King's achievements and commemoration of his death...
SEARCH AND CHARGE Apparently it's not enough for the folks at Yahoo! that they've already won the Web search-engine wars. A few weeks ago, they began offering Yahoo! Visa cards, and last week they joined forces with MCI to launch a Yahoo! Internet-access service, putting them squarely in competition with giant America Online...
What if one or more of these asteroids are found to be a serious threat? Scientists generally agree on the best strategy for avoiding disaster: launch a rocket to intercept the intruder and, at the very least, change its orbit. If the asteroid is small and detected many years and orbits before its predicted impact, the solution would be straightforward. "You apply some modest impulse to the asteroid at its closest approach to the sun," says Los Alamos' Canavan. "The slight deflection that results will amplify during each orbit, ensuring that the asteroid misses Earth by a wide margin." That...
...reports were "flat, flat, flat, flat." Then, magically, they took off; the Palm was a hit. Hollywood moguls started using it. Pilots began showing up on television (Murphy Brown) and in the movies (recent sighting: Wag the Dog). Within 18 months, more than a million were shipped, a faster launch than the first cellular phones and pagers enjoyed...
...they say, is that Microsoft has been using its control of the desktop to pry its way into new markets. Microsoft has "done almost everything they can think of to put us out of business," Barksdale told the Senators. He should know: Netscape's browser was unrivaled after its launch in 1994. But pressured by Microsoft, which was giving a virtually identical product away, Netscape saw its market share plummet. Now the company gives away not just its software but the underlying source code as well...