Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ebbers likes to give the impression that he is about as smart as a fence post. Around the office, his style is faded jeans, cowboy boots and turquoise jewelry. "Our personality is to be very loose. We aren't stuffed- shirt people," he says. His colleagues know him better. "Don't fall for that 'Aw shucks' stuff," says John Sidgmore, WorldCom's cerebral vice chairman and the architect of its strategy for dominating access to the Internet. "Bernie's extremely street smart. Most of all, he has a vision for the company. He's extremely aggressive and simply wants...
Some 50,000 of the cash cards, also known as "smart cards," are being mailed to consumers this week by Chase Manhattan and Citibank. They look like conventional credit, debit or ATM cards, but there is a vital difference: a tiny chip that can electronically store money. A consumer first takes the card to an ATM and downloads, say, $100 onto the chip. When the card is inserted into a terminal, the chip deducts the price of a newspaper or chewing gum from the total stored on the card and adds it to the virtual cash stored in the terminal...
...Hardware and an Athlete's Foot store within a few blocks of one another. The merchants so far are enthusiastic. Says Martin Vatage, assistant manager of an Athlete's Foot: "You don't have to sign anything; you don't have to wait to call the credit-card company." Smart cards are like cash in another way: lose them, and you're out the money, although Chase's Mondex cards are encoded with the user's personal identification number, making a stolen card useless. Mondex's cards also allow consumers to transfer value among their own cards by means...
Holland, whose previous credits include the German drama Europa, Europa and the kiddie-pleaser The Secret Garden, was smart to choose a tight, simple story that allows for a few idiosyncratic touches but matches more closely with her essential narrative conservatism. Recently guilty of filling her films with too many climaxes, the director shows considerable discipline in building the tension between her characters until the drama reaches a critical mass...
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