Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...water, it didn't get any better. "We weren't allowed to use Harvard facilities then," she said. "We practiced at Brown and Nichols and bought a used shell from Wellesley...
...case, self-pity congeals to make a hard shell. The Serbs are indifferent to mere world opinion. Their leaders have manipulated them to obduracy. So Bosnia becomes another parable (savoring ominously of the '30s) of the primary human mystery, the beast potential in everyone. Sometimes the beast can be talked out -- negotiated out -- and calmed and recivilized. But the bully-beast loves to play with the people's hopeful illusions. Sometimes the beast, once risen among us, needs to be beaten until it is helpless to harm any longer. Sometimes it simply needs to be killed...
...powers that be in entertainment and programming have their eyes on the $4 billion spent each year on video games, the $12 billion on video rentals, the $65 billion on residential telephone service, the $70 billion on catalog shopping. They are eager to find out how much customers will shell out to see last night's Seinfeld or the latest Spielberg. They are exploring the market for addictive video games and trying to figure out how much they can charge for each minute of play. It won't be long before someone begins using video phones for the multimedia equivalent...
...careful evaluation of every component that goes into a building, including lighting, heating, ventilation, carpeting, wall covering, paint, waste disposal and even the structure itself -- and then figuring out how each element interacts with the others. For example, observes Berle, "if you've got a more efficient building shell and more efficient lighting system, that obviously has an impact on what you need in terms of heating and cooling." His new headquarters proves the point. It carries a little more than half the air conditioning capacity engineers would ordinarily specify for a building of its size -- and still has plenty...
...cutting costs, but he will have his work cut out for him at IBM, which has lost $7.8 billion in the past two years and cut 100,000 jobs since 1985. As the first non-IBMer ever to head the company, Gerstner will have to win over IBM's shell-shocked work force, which fears even more job cuts...