Word: optional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only a few years ago, Kerry would not have had this option. In the early 1990s, his assets were limited to a $100,000 trust fund, and his only income was his Senate salary...
...similar to the Baby Bells spawned by the court-ordered breakup of AT&T. Each of these mini-Microsofts would be nearly identical, selling the same software but in competition with one another. George Washington University law professor Bill Kovacic, an antitrust expert, calls this a "radical chemo-therapy" option. Notwithstanding the AT&T and Standard Oil cases, he says, judges are often reluctant to go this far in restructuring an errant monopolist...
...option favored by most state attorneys general would require Microsoft to divulge its Windows source code--its most valuable piece of intellectual property--to other tech firms. This would allow Microsoft's rivals to develop their own versions of the world's dominant computer operating system. The government could auction off the license to the highest bidders, or Judge Jackson could find Microsoft guilty of "copyright abuse"--giving just about anyone access to adapt and sell Windows...
...credit-card option is part of the IRS' recent customer-friendly makeover, and in our credit-card culture it's a route many people will take. Indeed, the number of taxpayers who are going plastic is running ahead of the 75,000 the agency projected this year. But this is one bandwagon you shouldn't hop on quickly. For starters, you'll have to pay the typical 2% or so transaction fee that merchants normally cover when you whip out plastic at the mall. On the average expected federal-tax balance...
...they expect the Pentagon to pay more for its use of the Kwajalein atoll. Kwajalein's isolation and its shallow, 900-sq.-mi. lagoon have made it an ideal bull's-eye for U.S. missile tests for decades. The Pentagon has access to "Kwaj" through 2001, with a renewal option to 2016. As part of the deal, the islands get American aid. But they want more. The islanders say the $10 million they pocket each year isn't enough. Instead, they want "fair market value" for the use of their island. Given the Pentagon's peculiar use for the atoll...