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Winning over Wall Street will require a prolonged process of--pick your noun--either education or spin. Music-business executive Danny Goldberg, a former head of Warner Bros. records, says the merger both "validates the Internet and validates the value of content." But it also forces the invention of a new currency to reflect it; as the AOL and TWX stock prices yo-yoed up and down last week, it was clear that investors had no idea how to put a price tag on something that was neither an Internet highflyer nor an old-economy cash-flow locomotive. AOL lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL-Time Warner Merger: Happily Ever After? | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...second anthropological truth about Harvard students is that we are abnormally individualistic. "I" is the prevailing pronoun; "independent" is the most valued adjective; and "Personal Agenda" has become a proper noun. Believe it or not, at other normal colleges, people do not make lunch dates to see their friends; they just hang...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: Standing in Line to Serve | 1/7/2000 | See Source »

...trademark for a system of transmitting recorded background music by telephone line or radio to restaurants, stores, factories, etc. -noun, the music so transmitted, variously regarded as unobtrusive but pervasive, bland and monotonous, etc. (Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition...

Author: By F. G. Tilney, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Music Vs. Muzak | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

Since this decade began, pollsters and pundits have fretted over what collective noun to use for the next one (2000-2010). What comes after the '90s? Zeros? Two thousands? Double ohs? Linguists have waited years for a consensus to emerge. Now TIME intends to find it. Select your favorite from the list below, then vote for it in our online poll at time.com/daily/poll/ The winner will be announced in an upcoming issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Ain't the Tenties | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Ever wonder why we say that a baseball player "flied out to center" instead of "flew out to center"? Pinker explained that the meaning of the word 'fly' has changed as the word changed from a verb to the noun 'fly ball' and then back to a verb. Over that transformation, the suffix for the past tense has also changed...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pinker Explains Language | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

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