Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these various airlines pursue their ever more difficult contracts, what drives almost every move they make is a manic, singleminded desire to push costs down. Executives vividly remember the period from 1990 through 1994, when U.S. airlines lost $13 billion--more than the entire industry had made in its history...
...most old-style television sets, and the Ivana-thin display costs, ahem, $25,000 (for the 42-in. incarnation, on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer). Nonetheless, TV analyst Allen Griffin says the set is a good omen. The breakthrough "plasma" technology that made these high-end boxes possible should push higher-quality, lower-cost versions into the price range of mortals sometime near century...
...high-tech executive with a Ph.D. in physics, Brian Kushner had an unlikely inspiration. If used cars helped push America into the automotive age, perhaps used PCs could do the same for the information era. The result: Recompute, Kushner's year-old used-computer store, which just went national. The mail-order house, based in Austin, Texas, takes personal computers with 486 or Pentium processors and refurbishes and resells them. Most of the boxes are just short of state of the art but fine for everyday computing. And at $600 to $1,000, they've quickly become...
...Princeton shoots three-pointers very well," said Kyle Snowden '97. "They have a patient offense and generate easy baskets when teams get lackadaisical. Penn is an up-tempo team that will get the ball in the open court and push as much as they...
Despite its openly sappy ending, Hotel de Love will probably succeed in melting even the most cynical hearts. As writer and director Rosenberg says, "If you're a romantic, I think you'll really love the thing. And even if you're borderline, maybe it'll push you that...