Word: locks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abandoned its bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken program amid antitrust allegations, is pursuing a partnership with Visa International instead. The top software and credit card providers, respectively, said Wednesday that they would team up to offer online banking services in an attempt to break Intuit's lock on the personal-finance software market. Quicken gained its 80 percent niche by allowing users to pay their bills electronically, with the processing handled by Intuit. The Microsoft-Visa plan would allow people to pay bills directly from their bank accounts using the rival program Microsoft Money, which now commands...
...bill's calling card in nearly every area but one: protecting children from the alleged harmful effects of media exposure. To allay concerns about violent TV fare, the bill requires that new TV sets be equipped with a V-chip--a device that allows parents automatically to lock out programs labeled as high in violence. And computer pornography is targeted by a provision that sets criminal penalties for anyone caught sending indecent material over the Internet without ensuring that minors won't have access to it. Civil-liberties groups objected to the measure as a violation of free speech...
...away from the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls and narrowed Dole's once insurmountable lead in the polls. Forbes, using a combination of negative advertisements financed by his millions and an optimistic, supply-side economic message, has now pulled ahead of Dole in New Hampshire and threatens Dole's lock on the Republican nomination...
...G.O.P. nomination as Dole's to lose. In Le Mars, at least, he seems on the verge of doing just that. Someone else might not win outright, but if Dole's showing in Iowa falls below the 37% he won in '88 against a far stronger field, his predicted lock on the prize could break quickly...
...prison populations, those have more than doubled in the past 15 years. Most criminologists believe that a relatively small population of repeat felons is responsible for a disproportionate share of crime. Lock away the most energetic thieves and killers, and you make a serious dent in their business. "Most prisoners are violent or repeat offenders," says William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and drug czar. "Prisons do cut crime." Last week Bennett's Council on Crime in America, a commission he co-heads with Griffin Bell, who was Attorney General under Jimmy Carter, issued a report warning that violent...