Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead to the deep-rooted conflict with America that still exists," he says. But the students were carried away by public opinion when thousands thronged to what was denounced as the "Nest of Spies." "Things got complicated," he says. "We couldn't make decisions on our own anymore." One problem, he says, was keeping discipline in the ranks. The planners insist that the students were under orders not to harm the hostages, and were dressed down when they did. Asgharzadeh says the planners were angry when a student staged a shocking media parade of blindfolded hostages...
...courts function on Internet time? The problem is particularly stark when it comes to crafting an effective remedy. Like every successful high-tech company, Microsoft is in constant flux. In the past year it has moved quickly to adapt to changing circumstances. In May it paid $5 billion for a chunk of AT&T--thereby guaranteeing that Windows CE-powered set-top boxes will have an inside track on AT&T cable systems. It also invested $600 million in Nextel Communications and bought a 30% stake in a British cable company. Even if Jackson gets a chance to issue...
...browser wars are a good example. Netscape owned the market just two years ago. Microsoft, late to the Internet game, threw vast resources in that direction and now accounts for 64% of browser usage. Jackson's ruling means that Microsoft's capacity to assault a problem like that will probably be diminished in the future. But nothing is certain. The battle has just begun. Appeals could take years, and in the meantime the post-PC world may emerge in glory and render the judge's concerns moot. Do you want to miss another double...
...screwed up," says Glaser. The problem started when people in Real's marketing department decided they needed a better sense of who was using the service and what they were using it for. This is what every website wants to know. If it serves up 300,000 pages of information a day, does that mean 300,000 different people came to visit, or 50,000 who each visited six times? Glaser's techies tagged each user with a special ID number, or cookie, that identified them. Most big sites do the same thing, from Microsoft's to Time Warner...
...this point, the only fair thing to say about Zicam is that its benefits are still not proved. Maybe if I'm desperate, I'll try it next time I get a telltale tickle in my throat. In the meantime, I hope to sidestep the problem by following the advice of Dr. Jack Gwaltney of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, a top cold researcher. "Wash your hands a lot with soap and water," he says, because cold viruses like to linger there. Don't put your fingers in your eyes or nose, as they give easy access...