Word: richer
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...were probably being hoodwinked. James Atlas, writing in The New Yorker a couple of weeks ago, describes how the literary scene has become infatuated with cash lately. The only things writers can talk about at cocktail parties are stock options and mutual funds. His writer friends are getting richer and richer. And he understands them. It would be nice to be a rich writer, he admits...
...easy this week to forget that Harvard's prime business is education, not entertainment. And when all the chocolate 350th shields have been eaten, and the officially sanctioned pens have been drained of their ink, Harvard will be left in relative peace once again--a bit prettier, a bit richer and a year older, but probably none the wiser. Despite recalling its birth as the beginning of higher education in America, the University sadly missed this opportunity to reexamine either itself or education in general. Both are replete with problems, and a serious review might have been a perfect birthday...
...microprocessors, into a company worth $115 billion (more than IBM), with $5.1 billion in annual profits (seventh most profitable in the world) and an annual return to investors of 44% during the past 10 years. Other great entrepreneurs, most notably the visionary wizard Bill Gates, have become richer and better known by creating the software that makes use of the microchip. But more than any other person, Andy Grove has made real the defining law of the digital age: the prediction by his friend and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that microchips would double in power and halve in price...
...countrymen in 1956 by selecting the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, and his business in 1982, when the computers that Intel's chips were already enabling were named "Machine of the Year." This week's issue also caps a year in which TIME's commitment to the digital era bore richer fruit than ever. We consider the computer revolution one of the defining stories of our time. Our coverage in 1997 ranged from managing editor Walter Isaacson's groundbreaking profile of Bill Gates of Microsoft to that company's bailout of Apple and AOL's acquisition of CompuServe...
...longest in NBA history. Was what Sprewell did that much worse than Charles Barkley's throwing a guy through a plate-glass window? Worse than Barkley's spitting on a fan? Worse than Barkley's punching a guy in a bar? In a world in which players are richer, more popular and much bigger than their bosses, the NBA thinks attacking a coach is more egregious than hitting umpires, cameramen or fans. And so do most fans. The few who didn't cheer Carlesimo had their pro-Spree signs confiscated by officials at the Oakland Arena last Thursday. Even some...