Word: smalls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 21 teams almost exclusively in small town Canada and the Northeast, it was fortunate to have its playoff games televised on ESPN...
...already credited to his bank account. How about a virtual shopping cart, to which the customer can add additional purchases? Using the cart, the shopper can calculate the total bill at any point on the electronic expedition. Most businesses will throw this in with one of their plans, but small businesses might want to make sure it's in the plan they choose. Even online customers enjoy browsing the store. How easy to use is the software needed to accommodate that desire and build the website? You don't want to spend a lot of time trying to figure...
...President Kim's policies are pushing up unemployment, at least for the short term. The government prediction of 9% unemployment this year is stunning in a country used to levels closer to 2%. Kim Jung Mi, 30, was fired without notice last June from her sales job at a small Seoul bookstore. In a country where women occupy few positions in the top levels of business, they are often the first to get the ax when restructuring starts. As a never married mother, Kim had a tough life; her conservative family shunned her when she decided to keep her child...
...government offices there is confusion. Some ministers believe NATO will intervene to help; others argue that the alliance is far too divided to rescue such a small province. Milosevic is starting to turn up the pressure. He has issued a draft order for all battle-age Montenegrins, and his promises that no locals would be sent to Kosovo have been abandoned. Trees along boulevards now sprout the death notices of local soldiers killed in Kosovo. A civil war here would surely bring the dying closer to home...
From that small beginning, Y2K litigation is swelling to a flood. It was inevitable that Y2K glitches--caused by the inability of some computer hardware and software to read years after 1999--would keep lawyers busy well into the next century. What's surprising is just how fast the suits are coming: at least 78 so far, as many as 800 legal disputes proceeding to formal negotiations, and a few large settlements, including one for $7.5 million. If lawyers are this active now, how bad will it get when the year 2000 actually arrives? Lloyds of London insurance has predicted...