Word: launching
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Case refined his education at Pizza Hut, chewing his way through a yearlong assignment to scout the latest in pizza innovation at the unhealthy rate of eight to 10 pies a day. He helped the Hut launch a "pocket" pizza called Calizza--it followed the towelette into oblivion--and divined what he says is the single most important law of business: success requires you to sit taste bud to taste bud with your customer...
...goes well, Surveyor will operate into the year 2000. Even before then, NASA's next Mars ships--a lander and an orbiter set to launch in 1998--should have arrived and begun their own surveys. "We're here for a long visit," said Cunningham. "We're here to stay, essentially." It will be a while before Mars is lonely again...
...Republican National Committee will launch a "major effort to broaden the base of the Republican Party" with a national minority outreach program, the strangely-titled New Majority Council...
...while men tear down an Israeli barricade blocking a road into the village of Beit Sahour. Defective Diplomacy?: North Korean denies reports its ambassador to Egypt defected to another country... Eyes Peeled: A $205 million NASA science mission is delayed when two shrimp boats are sighted in the offshore launch zone.. Cop Killed: A third New Hampshire state trooper is shot dead in a routine traffic check just after attending the funeral of two other slain officers... But Does It Brew Coffee?: Hewlett-Packard introduces a $600 combination fax, printer and copier for small businesses and home offices...
...sound like the happiest places on the Web, but their party is about to get crashed. For more than six months, a team at Microsoft has been working on its own search engine/-directory, code-named Yukon. The company should have a beta version up by October, with a launch date of January. Yukon will most probably be released directly on the Web, not on MSN, the company's members-only Net service meant to compete with AOL. Rumors of BILL GATES' foray into the Web's most popular genre have been floating around Silicon Valley for months, but until...