Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even President Neil L. Rudenstine took the unusual step of writing personal letters to the heads of Harvard's individual schools asking them to comply to University guidelines and cut short any personal obligations to attend the high-level meetings...
...saved Wirebreak for last, because I thought it would be the best. When I met with the founders in July, I was impressed by their philosophy: they understand that online shows need to be short and snappy and that viewers like interactive games to keep them entertained while waiting for the video to start. Too bad their programs weren't half as good as their marketing pitch. The daily news show was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't. Girl's Locker Talk was a cheesy sex-talk show, and In the Neighborhood was just plain strange: viewers...
Perhaps the scientists who used the name Doogie for their strain of supermouse might have more appropriately chosen the name Algernon, as a warning to themselves. Algernon is the mouse in Daniel Keyes' famous story Flowers for Algernon, and the improvement in its skills is short lived, as is the improvement in the skills of the human experimented on in the tale. FRED CRAWFORD Ellon, Scotland...
...Internet is weaving itself into the fabric of the economy at a breathtaking pace; on that point the economists were in full agreement. But they stopped short of calling it a revolutionary force, on the order, say, of the development of electricity as a power source for industry in the early 20th century. They did note that the Internet, like electricity, is insinuating itself in ways that make the future unthinkable without it. Says Barry Newman, director of technology, corporate and investment banking at Banc of America Securities: "You're going to see the Internet become a core portion...
...into a branch office to talk to someone in person, and the branch customers wanted the convenience of trading online." So Schwab gave the customers what they wanted, uniting the businesses and dropping the cost of all trades to the online price--$29.95. Schwab took a hit in the short run, the price cut shaving about $125 million off its revenues in 1998. But the move has since paid off: Schwab's total number of accounts rose from 3 million to 6.3 million, and it's now the No. 1 online brokerage...