Word: linings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creates well-capitalized competition for companies that have already gone public. This is an underappreciated phenomenon. Each new Internet IPO equips yet another company to steal business from the incumbents. Instead of one online pet store, there are three. That pushes all companies in the same line of enterprise further from the future profits that, to a degree, all Internet investors count...
...trendy cocktail lounges alike. "I can't walk past a construction site without having 'Fancy a shag?' yelled at me," says Elizabeth Hurley, who co-starred in the first film and has a cameo in the sequel. Laughs Roach: "So many women have blamed us for giving men pickup lines. In the era of sexual harassment, I hope it's good for mankind to use a line that can be fairly innocent and still somewhat naughty...
...half a dozen companies, ranging from Virgin Atlantic airlines to Heineken beer. Next spring there will be a prime-time HBO cartoon series. "We want this to be around for the next 10 to 20 years, ad infinitum," says Bob Friedman, the marketing co-chairman of New Line Cinema (which is owned by TIME's corporate parent, Time Warner). As James Bond might say, that's a pretty Moneypenny...
...biggest album, 1997's Surfacing, the ode to love gone bad, Do What You Have to Do (which popped up in the Starr report when a certain intern's jottings to the President cited it as her fave), becomes a taut wire of despair as its restless, searching piano line plays off the icy clarity of her lyrics: "What ravages of spirit conjured/ this tempestuous rage/ created you a monster/ broken by the rules of love...
...bring. Weakened home-video sales and a slowdown in merchandise licensing in the midst of Star Wars mania have hurt earnings; Disney stock is down 25% from its 52-week high. High costs for NFL games for ABC and start-ups such as Animal Kingdom and the Disney Cruise Lines have all pinched the bottom line...