Word: paged
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...public in a way that was unimaginable a decade ago. I know this because I'm a watcher too. When people come to my Website, without ever knowing their names, I can peer over their shoulders, recording what they look at, timing how long they stay on a particular page, following them around Pathfinder's sprawling offerings...
...consumers, however, are skittish about leaving any footprints in cyberspace. Susan Scott, executive director of TRUSTe, a firm based in Palo Alto, Calif., that rates Websites according to the level of privacy they afford, says a survey her company sponsored found that 41% of respondents would quit a Web page rather than reveal any personal information about themselves. About 25% said when they do volunteer information, they lie. "The users want access, but they don't want to get correspondence back," she says...
...business style of city management. "We serve a city of 500,000 people a day," says White. "If we don't serve them well, a lot of them are going to go somewhere else." The centerpiece of his strategy for improving service to his "customers" is a 60-page "People's Budget," setting out goals for the year and evaluating whether they have been met. The city has generally been able to give itself high marks: the report card cites such achievements as 40% more dead trees removed in 1995 than the year before and twice as many children screened...
Whenever the ads run longer than a few words, ABC's confusion becomes even more evident. A one-page essay-style ad that appeared on the back of TV Guide shows that ABC, if pressed to express its views in more than a quick catch-phrase, can't decide whether TV is brainlessly inconsequential or culturally important. The essay starts out by proclaiming that TV is not a "Boob Tube" or "Idiot Box," directing angry and defensive words at no one in particular. "For years, the pundits, moralists, and self-righteous, self-appointed preservers of our culture have told...
...other colleges, however, similar changes have not occurred. Princeton and Brown both required a thesis to graduate with honors in English; Cornell requires a 50-page essay Yale requires all seniors to write a 30 to 40 page work...