Word: shared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think of consumers not just as the people who want to use a computer in their home, but also as the students and teachers in the K-12 and higher education community as well." With the arrival of Windows 95 (and now 98), Apple began to lose its share of this market and seeks to gain it back...
...announced Tuesday morning that their anticipated marriage would go ahead -- after a full month of secret negotiations -- and that AOL would pay $4.21 billion. That's $210 million more than expected -- which, considering Netscape's dire financial straits, is no small potatoes. Netscape shareholders get a healthy 0.45 AOL shares per Netscape share. The company's CEO, Jim Barksdale, gets a seat on AOL's board. And with Sun Microsystems helping out on the server software front, cyberspace has a coalition large enough to contain the mighty Microsoft...
Along the way there are intermittent pleasures: a nice updating of David Seville's Witch Doctor into a wild Tiki Room monkey jamboree; a sweet scene of Tommy and Dil learning to share a blanket. But the charm of the TV show has been coarsened and franticized. The film's writers (David N. Weiss and J. David Stem) and directors (Norton Virgien and Igor Kovalyov) have taken the Spielberg scenario as their template--children separated from their parents, then found--but this one has the harried air of The Goonies. And the film may have overestimated its hold...
Further growth may spring from the hobbling of foreign competitors. For 15 years Japanese banks have battled for market share in U.S. real estate and corporate lending. At times they have undercut U.S. banks to the point where the business became unprofitable. But the Japanese banks hold so many bad loans in Asia that they are scaling back dramatically in the U.S. European banks aren't faring much better. Both trends should boost profits for U.S. lenders...
Though the Internet is host to more than its share of quacks touting dubious cure-alls, a few serious sites on supplements are worth checking out: Columbia University Medical Center's Fact Sheets on Alternative Medicine at cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/rosenthal/factsheets.html the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at altmed.od.nih.gov/nccam/ and the University of Texas Center for Alternative Medicine Research at sph.uth.tmc.edu/utcam/default.htm Finally, the surest sign that alternative medicine has gone mainstream: Herbal Remedies for Dummies (IDG Books; $20) is just hitting the stores...