Word: outlet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company" was headquartered in a modest two-bedroom home that Jeff and MacKenzie rented in Bellevue, a Seattle suburb. They converted the garage into a work space and brought in three Sun workstations. Extension cords snaked from every available outlet in the house to the garage, and a black hole gaped through the ceiling--this was where a potbellied stove had been ripped out to make more room. To save money, Bezos went to Home Depot and bought three wooden doors. Using angle brackets and 2-by-4s, he hammered together three desks, at a cost of $60 each. (That...
...limitless ether of cyberspace, eBay has managed to conjure up the real thing. For many people, eBay does what communities have traditionally done. It not merely provides them financial sustenance but also draws them together with like-minded folk, offering encouragement, rewarding unique talents and interests, giving an outlet for their eccentricities and individuality and in some cases rescuing them from the margins where they would otherwise languish alone...
...heard horror stories about how long it would take to install the cable modem. These turned out to be untrue. Since I already had a TV-cable outlet in my home office, it took the cable guy half an hour to plug in the modem, drop an Ethernet card into my PC and configure it all. Bing, bang, I'm online at 5 or more megabits...
...convinced that your magazine is nothing more than an advertising outlet for your parent company, Time Warner. As the mother of young children exposed to the Pokemon craze, I read your cover anticipating reinforcement for or at least an explanation of whether my parental decision to limit Pokemon in my household was warranted. Instead, I read an article--or should I say advertisement--with little investigation into the influence such commercial games have on children. There seems to be a trend in your magazine to advertise upcoming Time Warner movie releases without much newsworthy information. MARY KAY BATTAGLIA Anchorage...
...student groups continue to exist. Right now, student life at the college is in limbo. Will social life return to a House-based center? Or will groups further fracture as students spend more time in extracurricular activities, while turning to organizations outside of Harvard for a social outlet? I believe that it is in the best interests of both the students and the College to return the focus to House life. The results of such an affiliation would tremendously benefit the entire undergraduate community...