Word: pushings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ignored until the late '70s, when it resurfaced and resonated with a public made cynical by those twin devils, Vietnam and Watergate. By then too, the Federal Government had grown so large and its concerns so cosmic--what with the space program and a nuclear arsenal that could, if push came to shove, wipe out humankind--that covert interactions with an alien culture might very well seem within the realm of possibility (curiously, the supposedly advanced alien race of Independence Day takes days to wipe out Earth's great cities, when everyone knows we could...
...convergence of television and computers got a big push last week when a couple of digital-era bosses, Microsoft king Bill Gates and Brian Roberts, president of Comcast Corp., agreed on a deal in which Microsoft will invest $1 billion for an 11.5% stake in the Philadelphia company, the nation's fourth largest cable operator, with 4.3 million subscribers. Gates and Roberts intend to provide what the other cable guys promised years ago and so far have been unable to deliver: a new set of digital services and a bigger pipeline to pump it through. For viewers that means more...
...Comcast venture is Microsoft's attempt to push its content beyond the computer literate and into the mass market. Two months ago, Gates paid $425 million for WebTV Networks, which makes set-top boxes that allow Internet surfing through TV sets. "Gates is really confirming that the Internet is a medium, not a technology," says Christopher Dixon, a media analyst at Paine Webber. "They have content and need distribution. The key is that Microsoft has accelerated the development of opportunities in line with its prior investments...
...that scenario a near given, TIME's Sam Allis notes that the deal's future is "still problematic." Says Allis:"The danger is they don't know where the opposition in Congress is going to be coming from. They have to get the right people on the Hill to push this through as legislation, and, so far, they don't have those people lined up." In an institution whose ornate hallways are decorated with carved tobacco leaves, that in itself is a sign of these very different times for Tobacco Road...
...Rouge splinters, leader Pol Pot reportedly surrendered today to a group of his former comrades who are holding him so he can be judged by an international tribunal for the genocidal regime he led between 1975 and 1979. At least 1 million Cambodians died during Pol Pot's bloody push to forcibly turn the country back into an agrarian, technologically primitive nation. He has not been seen in public since December 1979, when he went into hiding after Vietnam invaded Cambodia to stop the Khmer Rouge. Last week, Pol Pot reportedly fled his northern stronghold of Anlong Veng with...