Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Sutter's Mill, which in 1848 bestrode a gold-laden California stream, Fidelity has for years flushed a rising river of investment through its machine, enriching both customers and company. One out of every 50 households in America owns shares in Magellan, which has grown to a staggering $50.97 billion. Fidelity invests more money for the employee savings-and-retirement plans known as 401(k)s than any other institution: $111.4 billion...
...personality [of Adams House] has been sustained over the years in a sense that the House is based on open-mindedness and a resistance to conformity. We take pride in not going with the main-stream," Kiely told The Crimson last spring, adding that he feared Adams's unique character would be lost after randomization...
...media giants of all persuasions to compete in one another's markets. With everybody from the Baby Bells to Bill Gates breathing down their neck, cable operators have little choice but to lay fiber over their aging coax networks as the old analog media converge into one big digital stream. High-speed Net access, for the moment, is just an intriguing appetizer to a main course comprising telephones, wireless data services and even interactive television. "Eventually this architecture will let us do what we've done in Orlando," says Britt, referring to Time Warner's famously costly interactive TV adventure...
...Yale and Princeton, respectively. Harvardians responded with a mix of consternation and indifference to the news that their alma matter had fallen from its lofty position as the undisputed best of the best. (On Yale's New Haven campus, however, screams of joy were reportedly heard over the steady stream of gunfire...
Since his December announcement, Gates has backed up his martial rhetoric with action. Over the past three months, Microsoft programmers have released a stream of new products designed to seduce Net users away from Netscape. With everything from software giveaways to massive developer conferences (Microsoft rented 40 movie theaters on July 16 for a programmers' gathering), the gang from Redmond, Washington, has pressed home one message: Microsoft is playing for keeps...