Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them early, but if you allow a teamlike this to keep building momentum, you neverknow what's going to happen," Stone said. "We hada little sour taste in our mouths due to somedefensive breakdowns. If we're going to continueto play like this, we're going to get stung...
This is a sour note for the $12 billion-a-year music industry, which is belatedly taking a long, painful look at its endangered business model. The industry is losing millions in revenue to the digital pirates, who use a readily available (and free, of course) software program called MP3 (Mpeg1 Layer 3) to receive and send music over the Internet. The pirated tunes have sound quality comparable to that of CDs, and can even be channeled through conventional stereo systems. "The Internet has made music so vulnerable," says Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) general counsel Cary Sherman, "[that...
...single most important relationship--which may actually last a lifetime--is between the principle adviser and the student," he said. "But just in case that relationship goes sour, we want to create a safety...
...meantime, the fortunes of the old-line brands have taken a turn for the worse. Overseas markets have turned sour, with, first, Southeast Asia, then Russia and now Latin America producing surprises to the downside. Amazingly, these weakened economies have shown more appetite for computer hardware and software than for fancy razors and soda. A stronger dollar took away some of the pizazz. And some of the great brands have run out of room to show double-digit growth without bumping into one another. This week saw another tough quarter from Pepsi, which can seem to win only...
...first Pope was Pius XII. Her parents found him "a bit sour." Growing up in Lebanon, Ky., Betty Spalding went to confession, heard Mass in Latin and wore a demure chapel veil. She prayed avidly: "I was adding it up, earning heaven." In junior high school the nuns told her that John XXIII, Pius' successor, was "opening the windows of the church, and that appealed to me." Not that she would dream of contradicting a Pontiff anyway. "If the Pope said it, that was fine with me," she recalls...