Word: offers
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...yesterday's attempt by UPS to break the strike deadlock with a soundbite-friendly rallying cry for company democracy: "Let our people vote." Rather than the teamsters' council of elders, said the company, the union rank-and-file should have the last say on whether the company's contract offer sinks or swims. Today's threat will have workers wondering how genuine that offer...
...stranded on a desert isle, about the only comfort a notebook computer can offer is a nice long game of solitaire. The right watch, on the other hand, might save your life. Breitling's Emergency watch comes with a tiny transmitter that sends a distress signal that can be picked up by search planes or rescue boats as much as 250 miles away...
...Supreme Court slapped down the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which prohibited the posting of "indecent" material over the Net. This decision in turn has created a hot market for products that derisive Net-heads call "censorware"--such software filters as CyberPatrol, NetNanny and SurfWatch ($29.95 to $39.95) that offer to help nervous parents keep inappropriate material from prying but underage eyes...
...aware of how much they're missing. Censorware produces unpredictable and often unwanted results (see box), and most filterers consider their blacklists trade secrets. This puts Loudoun County in the position of letting private firms pass judgment on the contents of a medium that's supposed to offer easy access to all--a notion that's especially dubious in the case of the "free public library," Internet provider of last resort for those who can't afford a computer. "We serve the information needs of the whole community," says Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association's Office...
...fine, dreamlike first novel, The Light of Falling Stars (Riverhead; 308 pages; $23.95), J. Robert Lennon does start off with an air crash, not far from a Montana town he calls Marshall. But he declines his own generous offer of melodrama (and of irony too, for that matter) and proceeds to a far more interesting narration that amounts to a kind of anti-melodrama. The plane falls, townspeople grieve and attend funerals. But enemies are not reconciled, deep perceptions are not arrived at, lovers do not see each other more clearly and dearly. Paul and Anita, a shakily married couple...