Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...testify before his own Commerce Committee. When a Senate colleague began to interrogate him, Pressler protested, "I don't think it's proper to ask hard questions to members." Or consider the fact that Republican committee staff members once took it upon themselves to supply Pressler with a stream of memos during meetings so that observers would think he was engaged in the proceedings...
...summer weekend in 1969, traffic flowed ina constant stream west of Boston towards a muddydairy farm in New York. The next year, some turnedaway from the Cambodia/Kent State turmoil and backto simpler times by dancing in every square inchof the Rindge Tech auditorium aisles to the tunesof...
...building a $40 million-plus home on suburban Seattle's Lake Washington, with video "walls" to display an ever changing collection of electronic art, a trampoline room with a 25-ft. vaulted ceiling where he can burn off steam, a 20-car underground garage and a trout stream. The Road Ahead, a book on which Gates is collaborating with Nathan Myhrvold, a Microsoft group V.P., and journalist Peter Rinearson (publication date: Oct. 16), received a $2.5 million advance from Penguin, a record for a book by a few computer geeks...
...actual purpose of sitcoms, therefore, is not entertainment. True, little entertainment outside of absurd humor comes without the cost of a little mockery or deprecation. But a sitcom doesn't supply much wit or coincidence, just a constant stream of feeble pointing and ridiculing built on some imaginary person's futility...
...Africa's gross domestic product grew 2.3%, the largest increase in five years. Meanwhile, inflation has been running below 10%. In the 1980s fretful whites and jittery foreign investors shipped $16 billion out of the country; in the last half of 1994, however, capital inflows reached $2.4 billion, a stream of funds that will undoubtedly accelerate now that the government has jettisoned complex currency regulations that deterred foreign investors. Last year fixed-capital investment grew...