Word: roading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard looks to continue its newest winning steak as it embarks on its longest road campaign of the season. The Crimson first takes on regional foe, Providence, tomorrow afternoon before meeting its next Ivy opponent, Yale, on Friday
They don't have to. By gathering all that Net capacity, WorldCom is building a low-cost back road that can deliver E-mail and other data among corporate clients from Boston to Hong Kong. The company recently launched an Internet fax service in a bid for a chunk of the $92 billion fax market. "If you find a way to fax over the Internet, you are going to take a huge piece of what is pretty much the growth segment of the [phone] industry," says the frenetic John Sidgmore, vice chairman of WorldCom and CEO of UUNet...
Ebbers, 56, will take Sidgmore's word on that. Ebbers is as low frequency as any telecom executive can be. He favors faded blue jeans and golf shirts and on-the-road Willie Nelson tunes. While his 1.8% stake in WorldCom is worth more than $560 million, he likes to aw-shucks his own role in his company. "The thing that has helped me personally," he says, "is that I don't understand a lot of what goes on in this industry." So he relies on executives who come along with acquired companies...
...charged bass precisely complements the guitar with a brightness in each note that at once reinforces and rebukes the lyrical subject matter. Paralleling this double-edged musical sword, the song can identify both with sad moments (saying goodbye) and happier instances, such as journeys out on the open road with a crisp breeze cutting across your face and the somber song ambling along on the radio...
...couple of horn-based groups to the forefront of the popular modern rock movement. Replete with animated lyrics and cheery melodies, Reel Big Fish revels in their own path to fame with "Sellout." The next time you hear this song, picture two cars swerving down a rural, gravel-paved road on a sunny day with hands swaying outside the driver's side windows. I know I will. Then there is the more serious but just as exciting "The Impression That I Get" by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Although they are musically superior to Reel Big Fish, they didn't produce...