Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This deal amounts to a huge bet that you will come to see a rejuvenated Ma Bell as a benevolent Ma Everything, offering local and long-distance telephone service, high-speed Internet access and new television options such as video on demand, all bundled into that little white wire...
...high-speed capability, according to experts, will encourage the migration of the computer into the common areas of the household. That means more sites visited, banners clicked and e-commerce transacted--and AT&T (as well as Microsoft) wants a piece of all that fast-growing action. The company already has a wide array of Internet products and e-commerce applications ready to deploy over the nascent network. Gradually, through television advertisements, mailings and those annoying phone calls, AT&T's AtHome could become an online brand to rival AOL. "They are going to hit you on ESPN...
...picked up speed since then," Rebecca Marks said. "With four boats, anything can happen...
Marvels have been created out of a sense of inferiority, as the history of American museums proves. But from the 1880s to the late 1950s, American museums--the Whitney itself being the lone exception--were less interested in fostering American artists than in acquiring, at warp speed, the cultural treasures of Europe. This applied to modernism as well as to the Renaissance, and it wouldn't change until the late '50s, when Abstract Expressionism began to be elevated into the Triumph of American Painting. Earlier 20th century American art took much longer to be appreciated by Americans (or anyone else...
...Internet may be the newest and sexiest tool for historical researchers and genealogists, but it is also the most corruptible. The data are not certified, are sometimes inaccurate and can easily be created out of thin air. On the other hand, its greatest asset is speed. The research process can be shortened from months to hours and maybe even minutes. But you should still go to Minot, N.D., for that crucial land deed or to Cresson, Pa., to find an old newspaper article. The Internet can act as a valuable lead to start research but not to finish it. CHRIS...