Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Good PC service and reliability are doubly important when you're working out of a small office or at home and your tech support staff is your brother-in-law. Hewlett-Packard's Vectra is a super machine, but it's the service that really makes the difference: you get a three-year warranty and software that enables technicians to dial in to your PC over a modem line to diagnose and fix problems. An optional networking kit lets you link PCs to share files or a printer. Configurations cost up to $3,264 for a 200-MHz Pentium system...
...great plane's Newt Gingrich Memorial Steerage Compartment, back behind the Secret Service, where they keep the crates of live chickens, the goats and the journalists--might have hoped to see the flesh and blood of democracy up close, but spent his time instead fantasizing a kind of Super Bowl that would pit the Soccer Moms against the Deadbeat Dads...
...five categories: food and Drink, Public Awareness, Products and Services, Travel and Transport, and Entertainment and Leisure. The big winners, not surprisingly, were American, Japanese, and Western European advertisers but the Australians, Russians, and South Americans were not overlooked. The majority of the American winners first aired during the Super Bowl, the launching pad for new, creative commercials. Interestingly the judges at the Cannes Festival usually failed to resist cultural stereotypes, almost all of the winning American commercials were ones for Little Caesar's, Pepsi and Budweiser...
...child as predator that fascinates the presidential candidates. In the past, candidates had platforms; now they offer lists of disciplinary measures. Bill wants to put the little ones in uniforms and subject them to curfews. Bob predicts that "some of today's newborns will become tomorrow's super-predators" unless we start punishing juvenile criminals as if they were adults. Most states, he happily notes, already have the option of trying bad kids in grownup courts and imprisoning them right along with the 200-lb. child molesters...
...remain the state's most potent living legacy to the nation, with three of the clan now in Congress, helping to make politics one of the state's favorite spectator sports. This year, with John Kerry and Bill Weld battling for a Senate seat, Massachusetts is host to the Super Bowl of congressional races...