Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keyboard, the Japanese giant might make more of a profit from games licensing. Sony games, even in their pirated Internet versions, contain about five times as much digital information as Nintendo's, and are thus more difficult for illegal users to download. They must copy CDs, using special $300 drives, and install a mail-ordered $4 modifying chip--a significant psychological barrier to mass piracy. And Sony has an ace up its sleeve in the shape of the PlayStation II, set to wow its first U.S. users at the turn of the millennium. Nintendo looks more vulnerable to emulators...
...impeachment scandal may be over [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 22], but its effects will go on eating at the very heart of the world's most powerful country. Maybe it's true, as Christian broadcaster James Dobson said, that Americans no longer recognize the nature of evil. Perhaps they see everything in shades of gray. This could prove to be the nation's downfall. But who cares so long as the U.S. economy is doing great? FERDINAND S. ROAQUIN Subic Bay, the Philippines...
...test its Smart Pump automatic fueling system, in which a large robotic arm opens your gas cap, fills the tank, closes the cap, and bills your credit card, all in about three minutes, while you relax or buy coffee. First available in Indianapolis, the Smart Pump will require a special gas cap (installed by Shell) and will read a sensor installed in the car window to detect your fuel type, locate your gas cap and charge your credit card...
UNSCOM's shroud of respectability was further shredded last week when the Washington Post reported that U.S. spies used the U.N. Special Commission arms-inspection agency as cover for Washington's solo espionage efforts. For three years, U.S. intelligence operatives tapped into Iraqi military communications without the knowledge of UNSCOM, the international team of arms controllers dedicated to hunting down and eliminating weapons that Iraq had pledged to destroy following its defeat in the Gulf...
...months ago--after revelations that U.S. spies had helped UNSCOM, with its assent--the U.S. government issued a statement declaring that its help "was specifically tailored to facilitate UNSCOM, the U.N. inspectors' mission, and for no other purpose, and was done at the direct request of the U.N. special commission...