Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wheel and clapped along with Vanna; fewer still are those who realize that the value of a letter is actually inversely proportional to its frequency. Your immediate wealth increases when five "S"s appear on the board, but in the long run, those "S"s really won't narrow down the identity of word as much as a single "Q" might...
...narrow room, a meter and a half wide, decorated with the awkward minimalism that passes for modern chic in the still Communist world: peeling white paint, tilting buffet tables, schoolroom chairs bolted together into haphazard couches. But the attraction here isn't the decor; it's the machines: a beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost...
...some 25 million in the U.S.--but it is opening quickly. Officials at China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications say they hope to have 4 million Chinese connected by the year 2000. At the same time, access to the outside world from China--once tightly controlled over a narrow pipeline--has quadrupled this year. As late as 1996, most Net traffic to and from China had to flow through a single 56-kilobit circuit in Shanghai, less bandwidth than many U.S. homes enjoy. Now China has a pipeline a hundred times wider, and at&t has just been hired...
...Republican leaders gathered in Newt Gingrich's office to hear some sobering news from the man who tracks the party's chances in November's election. John Linder's message, contained in a confidential memo in advance of the April 23 meeting, was simple: the G.O.P. could lose its narrow 11-seat majority in the House if it didn't find a way to galvanize its grass-roots activists, many of whom are Christian conservatives...
...dragged on for months." Other hurdles on the road to wedlock: Antitrust investigations in both Brussels and Washington. Of course, the course of corporate love never did run smooth. And the promise of all those hot sports utility vehicles at Chrysler should keep Daimler on the straight and narrow...