Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Redevelopment of Somerville has been proceeding at a rapid pace for the last few years, and though it is bringing a new vitality to the city, Gay worries Somerville will lose its working-class feel...
...their users what all users want: more power. The basic iMac - which now qualifies as the low-end iMac - comes with a 350MHz G3 chip, 64 MB of RAM (expandable all the way up to 512MB), and a six-gigabyte hard drive. What else? A new, quieter cooling system, rapid startup, and a new price: $999. MORE...
Teaching hospitals operate as non-profits and give charity care as well as educate a new generation of doctors. Rapid advancement in science and technology claim much of the responsibility for the economic prosperity and the budget surplus Congress is presently enjoying, and much of that advancement may owe its origin to funding decisions made decades ago. University research funded by the Defense Department developed the protocols that made the Internet possible and may have fundamentally changed the nature of the economy. It would be foolish to starve the next decades of similar innovation in other fields to achieve arbitrary...
...Chin is about to make partner at Information Technology Ventures, a small but rising Palo Alto VC firm. Chin handles the firm's portfolio of seven Internet companies and scours the Valley for others to fund. It's a frenetic job, but Chin crackles with rapid-fire energy. "We're going for the early-stage, high-risk, big hits," he says, piloting his midnight-blue Mercedes down I-280 on a recent Wednesday. "When I evaluate start-ups I ask, 'Is this a multibillion-dollar market? Can this be a billion-dollar company?' We want companies that can be industry...
...alone the same month. But strangely enough, August was a spookfest every week at the local cineplex. It's ironic, of course, since the true flood of copycat movies will begin in the next six to seven months as Hollywood execs try to capitalize on the trend (i.e. rapid filming, diehard editing, rush to theaters). Last time that happened, Scream planted the deadly seed in the mind of studio heads. As a result, we had lame-O drivel like Urban Legend, Idle Hands, I Know What You Did Last Summer, etc. etc. polluting our theaters for months...