Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word: him. Since arriving at AT&T 18 months ago, after stints at IBM and Hughes Electronics, Armstrong has unleashed a wave of high-profile, big-bucks purchases that has sent both his and the company's stock soaring. It was the perfect meeting of a CEO with an unlimited imagination and a corporation with an unlimited checkbook. In January 1998, just two months after Armstrong took the helm, the company paid $11 billion for Teleport, a company that operates fiber-optic networks in New York and other cities. Six months later, AT&T purchased Tele-Communications Inc., then...
...deal. (Comcast's strengthened position may come in handy later as Exhibit A when AT&T has to prove to regulators that it has not rebuilt the old Ma Bell monopoly.) AT&T sold to Microsoft--a company whose Internet strategy is looking increasingly piecemeal--$5 billion of preferred stock and an opportunity to supply some of the operating systems and software for the set-top boxes and servers that AT&T will have to deploy to support its vast new digital domain...
...victim took stock of the situation. He surveyed his surroundings and noticed that the only open and empty urinals were on either side of Helgen...
...boxes, clothing, records heck, even toothbrushes (I still have a set at home). And, oh yes, fun sells toys. Lots of them. Originally, the Star Wars line of toys consisted of only seven figures inexpensively manufactured by Sears along with a handful of cardboard (yes, cardboard) playsets. The entire stock of toys sold out in a matter of weeks. Enter Kenner Toys and a line of 93 figures, countless vehicles and elaborate playsets. Sum total: over $350 million in box-office and related sales. (And that's in '70s dollars.) Star Wars, in a sense, put the popular back...
...from photos to sound bites to detailed summaries of characters and plotlines. Microsoft's home Web page, the first thing every single Internet Explorer user sees when logging on, has even included a new "Star Wars Guide," placed strategically at the top of the page next to links for stock quotes and maps. Visitors can see how much time is left until the movie is released on May 19--last time I checked we had five days, 22 hours, 46 minutes, and 19 seconds...