Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experts think the true amount was three times that. A fatal dose is, says a U.S. Defense official, "smaller than a speck of dust, something you wouldn't even see." In a final step, the Iraqis refrigerated the muddy mixture; it could be loaded into a warhead shortly before launch...
First it cleaned up Times Square, now the Disney Corporation plans to do the same for the Internet. At an online industry conference Monday of more than 400 companies, most notably itself and AOL, Disney will announce the launch of a new search engine that will include only Web sites screened by Disney employees. The Yahoo-style site will be up and running by 1998, and promises to be the most extensive and kid-safe engine of all. "If families feel (the Internet) is not a family place, there's no way it's going to become as popular...
...that releasing a serious film at holiday time helped win Oscars. No and no. The summer is still box-office prime time; and in the past five years, only six of the 25 Oscar nominees for Best Picture were released in December. Yet that is when studios launch dozens of ambitious films, as if Academy voters had no long-term memory and the public had nothing better to do in the hectic shopping days before Christmas...
...industry isn't going to take these fixes sitting down. "We need to start fighting like we're in a war," says HIA counsel Melody Harned. The Republican leadership, Harned wrote in a memo, asked the coalition to "write the definitive piece of paper trashing all these bills" and launch a grass-roots effort against them. But she warned that Republicans wanted a commitment (spell that money) from the coalition before they go out on a limb. "Get off your butts, get off your wallets," Harned quoted Senate majority leader Trent Lott as saying...
Eisner had other plans. One August morning, he handed Katzenberg a press release that was about to be distributed. It mentioned, in passing, that Katzenberg would be leaving the company. Katzenberg went on to launch DreamWorks in partnership with Steven Spielberg and music mogul David Geffen. Katzenberg was the only one who had to mortgage himself to put up the $33 million seed money. In these circumstances, the lawsuit--for which his attorneys had logged 9,000 expensive hours as of September--has proved to be an especially big pain in the wallet...