Word: offer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half decade, Seidenberg, 51, has been working to make that copper sing and dance with stuff no one could have dreamed of in 1966--video, for instance, or 3-D Web pages. He is also making that copper work closely with its successor: hair-thin fiber-optic cables that offer vastly expanded speed and capacity--which translates to consumer value and, he hopes, corporate profit. Seidenberg, who oversaw NYNEX's merger with Bell Atlantic two years ago, has risen to the top not because he knows how to splice phone lines but because he knows how to splice phone companies...
...though IP telephony uses Internet standards, it doesn't generally use the Internet itself. Instead it typically runs on private, superfast networks that deliver the most speed at the least cost from IP-data traffic. Some companies--like International Discount Telecommunications--do offer telephone service over the Internet, posing yet another threat to traditional phone giants. In two years, IDT has gained a million customers (who do not, by the way, need to make calls through a computer; a regular phone works fine...
...most underserved groups seeking health care today. Fearing hostility at the doctor's office, they may not seek medical care. Or they may obtain hormones and sex-reassignment surgery on the black market, often with disastrous results. Health providers must educate themselves, so they can offer patients the nonjudgmental care they deserve. DEAN LABATE, Executive Director Michael Callen-Audre Lorde Community Health Center Transgender Health & Education Clinic New York City...
...million," while ROBERT GOTTLIEB of the William Morris Agency puts the number in the low six figures. LARRY KIRSHBAUM of Time Warner Trade Publishing is closefisted, saying, "I think we're all bimboed out." The supermarket tabloids are similarly split. The Star's PHIL BUNTON has a standing offer of $1 million to hear Lewinsky's story, while the Globe's TONY FROST has "scant interest." Meanwhile, right-wing publisher Regnery next week becomes the first with a proimpeachment book, this one by commentator ANN COULTER...
...prostitute, an African cab driver and, the only white, an aide to a decrepit Southern Senator. Pam Grier plays the smart, attractive head of a children's advocacy group. The show is worthy, but its ideas are obvious and it lacks what those coarse series do at least offer--humor, life, energy. Weighed down by the tone of dead-serious satire, the jokes on Linc's usually land with a thud...