Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record companies have yet to agree on a standard for distributing music digitally online, but hope to have one by June. They're worried about protecting copyrights and being able to charge money for downloads. Meanwhile, the Net has already settled on a standard, called MP3, which squeezes CD-quality music into files about one-tenth their original size while retaining most of the music's high fidelity. The standard is controversial because it allows people (kids, mostly) to swap music online--piracy, the record companies charge. Yet millions do it, despite the irritating download wait...
...Andersen's satiric gift, and so broad his scope, that he almost incidentally sprays tiny rat-a-tat bullets at Alec Baldwin, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Jay Gould, AIDS-awareness ribbons and the word lite. With a sweeter brand of malice, he takes direct (and hilarious) aim at Wall Street money-manager/pundit/provocateur (and TIME columnist) James J. Cramer, who is clearly the model for one of his more memorable characters...
...these guys had already been assured 250 tickets and just had to earn them by taking four-hour shifts collecting money for the Starlight Foundation outside the cinema. They had a name, NYLine Countdown to Star Wars, and 17 staff members, including a media-relations liaison, a sponsor-relations coordinator and a treasurer. They had a permit from the city, a hotel room across the street for showers, a pay phone hooked up to take phone calls from radio stations, and a tech-support van broadcasting a live webcam pointed at the theater. This, I assume, was to prove...
Perhaps recapturing the excitement of youthful giddy anticipation was worth wading through the hype, I thought. But then Jessica told me about her previous boyfriend, a fellow Star Wars freak. "The relationship ended because he spent all his money on Star Wars toys and never wanted to go out," she said. Sometimes it's best to evolve...
Republicans are muttering about a securities rule that's putting a crimp in the GEORGE W. BUSH juggernaut. Rule G-37 prevents Bush from accepting much Wall Street money. It limits how much can be contributed by brokers and dealers in the public-bond business to state and local officials who can influence who gets that business, including Governors and mayors. The restriction applies to anyone who does bond business as well as the firm's top executives, plus...