Word: quickens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Justice Department dealt Microsoft Corp. a stunning setback by suing to block the software giant's acquisition of Intuit Inc., maker of the predominant personal finance software Quicken. It would have been the largest software merger ever and would also have given Microsoft a formidable lead in the emerging market of online personal finance transactions.Anne Bingaman, Justice's antitrust chief, said allowing the deal "would likely result in higher prices for consumers who want to buy personal finance software and would cause those buyers to miss out on the huge benefits from innovation." Newly-minted conventional wisdom, notesTIME technology editor...
...Microsoft is exploring other ways to make money off the Internet. Last October it announced that it was buying Intuit, maker of the leading check-writing (Quicken) and tax-preparation (TurboTax, MacInTax) programs. But the acquisition was challenged in federal court last week by five anonymous software companies that argued that the deal, and a related agreement between Microsoft and Visa, will allow Gates to corner the market on online financial transactions, taking a cut of every bill paid and every purchase made in the online "shopping malls" springing up on the Internet's World Wide...
...years ago, Mary Shelley stayed awake all night writing a story "to curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart." Her Frankenstein has kept generations of readers up in the nights since, but perhaps no group more than the film makers. Kenneth Branagh's new film, "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", is yet another rebirth of the monster that has tested the pulse of our fears in versions ranging from animated cartoons to an X-rated Andy Warhol film...
From the moment Willum walks in the door, his only concerns are figuring out how to get in Tansy's pants and how to design a building for a client. But after he settles down, the arriving guests quicken the pace. While the first act seems to flow from quip to quip, the second act is hurried: the clipped delivery leads the characters to overcompensate by projecting their voices rather than their wits. Had the characters been edgier, The Nerd could have suggested the macabre tones of "Neighbors" or an episode of "The Twilight Zone," but the play is strictly...
...economy continues to quicken. The real estate market continued to surge in November as existing single-family homes sold at an annual rate of 4.21 million, breaking a record set in 1978, and new ones sold at an annual rate of 807,000 -- the highest level in more than seven years. The government's index of leading indicators also rose 0.5% in November, the fourth consecutive monthly increase. And the Conference Board business-research group said its consumer-confidence index jumped more than 8 points, to 80.2, in December...