Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That would not necessarily be a bad thing in the minds of many programmers, who are always on the lookout for what they call a "new platform" on which to write new, hot-selling software. The virtual Java machine represents, as Sun co-founder Bill Joy puts it, "the lightest-weight platform we've ever had"--made not of metal, plastic and silicon but of a few thousand lines of code...
That means Doug Herzog, Comedy Central's new president, will have to stay one step ahead. He's on the lookout for someone to replace Maher as "the face of Comedy Central" and hopes to launch three new series next year. Herzog also wants to rejuvenate that tired staple, stand-up comedy. The channel has attracted big-name comics like Whoopi Goldberg and Gary Shandling for upcoming specials, but Herzog is also looking for a way to showcase new talent that won't be "a guy telling jokes in front of a brick wall at Giggles in Cincinnati...
...punching out photographers ever since the camera was invented." That may be so, but it is unlikely that Mathew Brady taunted Abe Lincoln about his crazy wife. And only recently have the stars had to contend with the intrusive video camera--and the insatiable tabloid shows, always on the lookout for juicy footage of celebrities misbehaving...
Dependencies and increasing returns are no guarantee of long-term survival, however, and nobody knows that better than Gates. He and his lieutenants are always on the lookout for the technological breakthrough that could permit some smaller, scrappier competitor to do to Microsoft what Microsoft has done to everyone else. In the past the company was content to let others lead the way-into online services, for example-waiting until there was a clear market opportunity before swooping in. Now Microsoft is starting to do its own basic research, spending $600 million a year trying to build computer systems that...
...democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. If a similar public revulsion is building up again, then failing to pursue an anticorruption drive could make the country more difficult to govern, for Jiang or anyone else. The regime certainly seems nervous these days. Police line Beijing's main avenues, on the lookout for any potential unrest. One theory about the low-key treatment of Chen Yun's death is that it may be a trial run for the day Deng dies. Says a Chinese analyst: "If they manage to avoid a funeral for Chen, they might be able to do the same...