Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WEBSITE. Netscape's Netcenter may turn out to have been worth a few billion in its own right. The Netcenter site is a leading contender in the race to become one of a handful of powerhouse "portals": full-service websites that are online launching pads, entertainment networks and shopping malls rolled into one. Between netscape.com aol.com and the AOL service itself, Case's audience now numbers in the tens of millions. His acquisition also makes a good daytime-nighttime fit. AOL's usage is heavily weighted toward the evening and weekend hours, when teenagers and home users do most...
...from a novelty to the bedrock of 21st century capitalism, AOL can--perhaps must--become a major player in the lucrative "enterprise" market, helping corporations large and small move their operations online. "Companies who want to work with us are interested in a lot more than us promoting the site," says Case. "They want us to help build the service." It's another smart plan, but executing this one will mean battling not upstarts like Prodigy and CompuServe but behemoths like IBM and Microsoft...
...such as Barnes & Noble, which added lounge chairs and coffee bars, turning the bookstore into a relaxed, meet-and-greet emporium. Children's stores entice their young clientele with play areas and performances, while athletic retailers like Oshman's and the Sports Authority woo customers with batting cages, on-site golf pros and roller hockey games in the parking lot. Veer beyond the All-Clad pots offered at Williams-Sonoma and you might just stumble upon a cooking class. Walk into an Old Navy clothing store and you're apt to find clerks handing out tote bags for carrying merchandise...
...being burned off at wellheads as he flew over. Surely, he thought, the wasted energy could be put to some use. In 1973 he presented a plan to King Faisal, an old acquaintance: use the gas to power factories in a new city that Bechtel would build on the site of a tiny fishing village at Jubail. The city, still under construction, houses a steel mill and factories that make chemicals, plastics and fertilizer. The town is now home to 70,000 and growing...
...Whittemore Center was the site of last season's first-round playoff game between Harvard and UNH. The Wildcats narrowly escaped an upset by pulling out a 2-1 victory in overtime. With Harvard joining UNH as one of the top programs in the country this season, that quarterfinal may have been the start of a long rivalry between the Crimson and the Wildcats...