Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...panicked and raced up to my room to search the yellow pages for all the cab companies in Boston. I called every company. Not one of them had in their fleet a solid, dark-colored cab like the one that had taken us back to Harvard...
...majority, India looks set for another season of political instability. TIME correspondent Meenakshi Ganguly reports that the Baharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks set to take 249 seats, while Congress should take 167 and the incumbent United Front 98. Congress and the BJP are furiously courting tiny regional parties in search of a 273-vote majority, with a Congress-United Front coalition looking the more likely winner. That, says Ganguly, would mean further uncertainty: ?The United Front would have the power to bring down a Congress government in the way that Congress recently brought it down...
...confess the relationship to Jordan. Whichever version is true, Jordan knew the subpoena meant that "this is a whole new ball game" with higher stakes than he had imagined. (Had Jordan known about the sexual allegations before, White House sources told TIME, he might have conducted the job search in a way that left no fingerprints. "Jordan may be sloppy, but not that sloppy," said a Clinton aide...
Insiders say Grune played a role in ousting Schadt, his handpicked successor, and then dismantled much of what Schadt had set in motion. Two weeks after Grune returned, the company pulled the plug on a costly Internet search engine called LookSmart. "Over the last few months Grune has basically disowned everything his predecessor did," says Dennis McAlpine, an analyst with Josephthal & Co. Digest says it is just returning to basics. "In the last few years we drastically reduced our testing," says Thomas Gardner, vice president of U.S. marketing. "Our general philosophy was to focus on new initiatives...
Even the savviest Web surfers still get fooled by sleazy sites that sneak innocuous words like child care into nasty porn hubs. The problem is that most search engines aren't smart enough to separate the meat from the spam. Last week a start-up called Goto offered the perfect capitalistic solution: goto.com the search engine that ranks sites by what they're willing to fork over. If Chrysler pays Goto more than Ford, it'll pop up first when you hunt for a good deal on a new car. And because smut sites are too cheap (or popular...