Word: sell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many analysts have suggested that he wants to absorb enough punishment to provide cover for handing over Kosovo to international peacekeepers. "It's very Slavic," says the Russian observer. "He needs to be seen as compelled, so he can sell it to the 90% of Serbs who cling to Kosovo emotionally." But it is equally possible that he has something else in mind. Perhaps he thinks he can successfully endure all the bombing the West can muster and still continue to defy its plans for Kosovo, as his enemies exhaust their will before he exhausts his. "He truly believes...
...cyberspace has put severe pressure on traditional broadcasters. ?CBS in particular has been hurting for some time,? says TIME senior economic reporter Bernard Baumohl. ?The King World purchase should infuse the company with a major new source of revenue.? CBS will now be in a much stronger position to sell television programming to others and, over time, to obtain it for its own stations...
...sell your album to Columbia, they say no, you put a single on the Internet, it becomes a big hit, and Columbia comes calling. Don't you kind of hate them...
Even then, Keynes had a hard sell. Most economists of the era rejected his idea and favored balanced budgets. Most politicians didn't understand his idea to begin with. "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist," Keynes wrote. In the 1932 presidential election, Franklin D. Roosevelt had blasted Herbert Hoover for running a deficit, and dutifully promised he would balance the budget if elected. Keynes' visit to the White House two years later to urge F.D.R. to do more deficit spending wasn't exactly a blazing...
...knobs. A new toolbar lets you set up direct links to your favorite Internet radio stations--a trick taken straight from broadcast.com The browser and radio are free (you can download them from www.microsoft.com) And sticking with the business practice that landed the company in court, Microsoft plans to sell a new edition of Windows 98 with IE 5.0 bundled...