Word: longer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...come to this. Six years after his eponymous restaurant opened in Chicago, it is being renamed, and redesigned, to honor the city's latest athletic hero, Cubs player SAMMY SOSA. The restaurant's owners (Jordan is not among them) claim business has abated since the former MVP is no longer on the court and only rarely at a table. New figurehead Sosa has agreed to dine regularly on the premises, which when they are officially rechristened next year, will feature Caribbean cuisine and a statue of the home-run hitter where once a Jordan mural reigned. The restaurant's owners...
...industry for 16 years, but I can't go to the movies anymore [BUSINESS, Sept. 13]. It's not just that the product is mostly crap and the price of tickets ridiculous. It's that the experience of actually being in a movie theater is so unpleasant. I no longer want to sit with the popcorn eaters and ice shakers and those who feel compelled to address the screen--not even if it costs 5[cents] to get in. Hollywood is slitting its own throat, and so is the National Association of Theater Owners. SHARON HAGEN Venice, Calif...
...wonder at the increases in cancer, birth defects, mental illness. And yet we slap 100% tariffs on the E.U. as a backlash for its being fussy about accepting food with firefly genes and zucchini viruses. Maybe we should listen to countries that have been around a thousand years longer than our tyronic republic. As for me, I think I'll have a glass of water for dinner. On second thought, I'll fast. JOSEPH BYRD Holland, Mich...
...already selecting individuals who are better at clicking mouses. In a brave new world, only geeks with fast fingers will get to work at Microsoft and make mucho bucks and be millionaires, so they can impress Puget Sound bambinas, mate and have geeky bambinos with faster and longer fingers. Where have all the strong men gone? Long time passing... GEORGE CONESA Bellingham, Wash...
...economy last year surpassed $300 billion, according to a University of Texas study, and experts say that number could double in 1999. The U.S. economy is so enormous that we are just beginning to see the effects of the Internet--lower inflation, more productivity, faster growth and a boom longer than anyone had expected, just a few months shy of being the longest in U.S. history. Profound as these effects are, they are only a foretaste of what could change the economy, and the way business is conducted, almost beyond recognition...