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Word: link (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact, errands are already getting easier. Many Japanese convenience stores are fitted with terminals that function as combination ATMs and online shopping kiosks, offering CDs, concert tickets and hotel reservations. The next step, say industry experts, is to link conventional vending machines with Japan's ubiquitous cellular telephones. In March, Japanese telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo announced that it is teaming up with Coca-Cola Japan and Itochu Corp. to test a system that will link i-mode, the company's Net phone service, with vending machines, allowing users to pay for drinks by pressing a few buttons on their handsets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vending the Rules | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...make the cleanup go five times as fast. It would be like giving your five-year-old a Sun workstation to do her math homework. And no one in Washington wants U.S. soldiers drawn into a long jungle battle. A State Department website on Colombia features as special link that highlights the concern: "Why Colombia Is Not Vietnam. Click here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Shadow Drug War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

Surprisingly, comic-genius Myers is the weakest link in the packed cast. Shrek, who sounds sort of like Fat Bastard Lite, has few good lines, and it is Donkey who steals the show. In what may be Murphy's funniest role since The Nutty Professor (or Metro, but that was more of an unintentional thing), Donkey prances around the screen, firing off a stream of surprisingly funny jokes and comments. Lithgow also deserves praise and laughs for his vocals on Farquaad, who is perhaps the first on-screen character ever on screen to have computer-animated chest hair...

Author: By Daniel S. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Unconventional Fairy Tale | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...hope not. Like Anne Robinson of "Weakest Link" fame, some celebs are much more fascinating when they're nasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Seven Veils of Steve Jobs | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

...expect miracles, such as accounting standards, overnight, but thorny politics is de rigueur. So don't get too excited that Lipper's China region funds gained 4.76% the week the U.S. spy-plane crew came home. Even if the events are related, there's no long-term link between the funds and upbeat news: fat headlines aren't always good financial advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Apr. 30, 2001 | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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