Word: sharpe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1980s, Microsoft's entry into the world of palmtop computing began only three years ago, when the company rolled out Windows CE, a relative of the company's ubiquitous operating system now found on more than 90% of personal computers. Microsoft then signed up 10 manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Philips, to make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version of a similar unit. "Everybody is in market-development mode...
Trying to shoulder Teledesic aside is Skybridge, an Alcatel venture with allies including Sharp, Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba. This summer, Skybridge upped its number of proposed satellites from 64 to 80 and plans to deliver zippy Net connections to the world's more populated areas by 2001. Then there's Angel Technologies, a privately held firm that envisions bouncing signals off a squadron of high-altitude planes circling above metropolitan areas. (Finding pilots may be a problem.) Angel execs say they'll be able to provide commercial Net access by 2000. Another scheme, from Sky Station, would employ blimps...
...dilemma is made a bit too sharp and pat by Ethan's peace-loving intellectual heritage, but Schwartz stays close enough to his characters' thoughts to keep the debate authentic and personal, rather than calculated and abstract...
Since the Asian financial crisis began over ayear ago, foreign markets have seen sharp drops.Harvard's investments in emergingmarkets--including Russia, Brazil, Argentina,Korea, Taiwan, India and South Africa--also postedheavy losses...
...four-state tour to boost Democratic candidates Wednesday by jumping into the only political battle that's actually uglier than her husband's: Rep. Charles Schumer's bid to unseat New York senator Al D'Amato. And although she's ditched the Tammy Wynette impression for that of sharp-tongued politico (she lacerated D'Amato for "voting to keep women down and back") TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty says she's helping her Bill more this way than she ever could have on Oprah...