Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal-finance software market. Quicken gained its 80 percent niche by allowing users to pay their bills electronically, with the processing handled by Intuit. The Microsoft-Visa plan would allow people to pay bills directly from their bank accounts using the rival program Microsoft Money, which now commands a scant 10 percent market share. "They're trying to strengthen their existing product," says TIME's Philip Elmer DeWitt. "But there's a lot of action in online transactions now. It's best not to be tied to any commercial product, any operating system or any bank card...
...take place in Paris on Valentine's Day, to the strains of Kamasutra, a symphony Prince has commissioned from his band, the New Power Generation. Further details--what Mayte's married name will be and if she will wear higher heels than the mercurial musician at the ceremony--are scant, but all will be revealed on Prince's Website, to be launched on the wedding...
...DOCTOR CAN ALWAYS SELL TO A DESPERate patient a procedure that offers scant hope and costs a great deal. In the future, though, we must sell not merely hope, but results. Fortunately, not all HMOs are using the patient's money to support administrators as you described. ROLF NESSE, M.D. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho...
...Case for Killing Social Security, and the Black Renaissance, to name just three. During his tenure, TIME superbly covered the war in Bosnia, the Newt Gingrich revolution and its effect on American politics, the O.J. Simpson trial and, most recently, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, which happened a scant 24 hours before the magazine went to press...
...this score there is scant dissent. No one since Lyndon Johnson has been a more effective Senate leader. Dole is the master of the half loaf. He trades with those who hold high cards for whatever he can extract in policy or political terms. In the past few months of high drama, as Congress sought to enact the G.O.P.'s budget, Dole's work on welfare reform displayed both his mastery of the process and his underlying ideology...