Word: media
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Governor, in plain English, is a Yahoo who has never confessed to a single regret or second thought and who struts around St. Paul, a big small town, with a retinue of bodyguards, emitting a great air of celebrity, scorning the local press while courting the national media. People do their best to grin and go along with it, but eventually you have to tell him to shut the hell up. He isn't a danger to anybody. He's just big and loud and arrogant. He's a guy wearing a 38-double-D bra on his head...
...preparing for a world in which every transaction becomes a complex trade deal between a pricing bot acting for the site and a shopping bot acting for you. "Dynamic pricing, that's the big notion," says Professor Pattie Maes, director of the software-agents group at the M.I.T. media lab. "After all, fixed prices have been around only for a couple of hundred years...
Knafel, 67, has been the managing partner of SRK Management Company since 1981 and sold another of his business ventures, Vision Cable Communications to the Newhouse Media conglomerate...
Nearly 80 members of the national media showed up to cover the event. Reporters from the country's major newspapers and newsmagazines crowded around students at the end of the event...
...problem may have been his city?s fans. L.A. certainly had plenty going for it, namely television. With broadcast deals skyrocketing at least as fast as franchise fees, TV is the best source of the league?s long-term revenues, and Los Angeles is the nation?s second largest media market; Houston is the 11th. Both cities have shed teams in recent years ? the Oilers left Houston in 1996, and both the Rams (in 1995) and Raiders (in 1994) have found it too hard to make a go of it in L.A. But it was McNair that came up with...