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...feature in Milosevic's strategic calculations. NATO Tuesday agreed to assemble a 50,000-strong peacekeeping force to enter Kosovo once an agreement with Belgrade is achieved. But with the alliance turning down British demands that a ground invasion be considered, Milosevic remains content to wait for NATO to sweeten its peace offer...
Answers: Bob Hope: Men and women of Desert Storm; Philip Johnson: Frank Gehry; Edward Teller: The fall of communism in the U.S.S.R.; Hallie Eisenberg: Beanie Babies; Jonathan Lipnicki: Mark McGwire; Madylin Sweeten: Rosie O'Donnell
...market-share leaders, which have been slugging it out for more than a decade. They are moving the battle from the saturated consumer market to better-heeled corporate customers. Margins in that market are shriveling as Dell and Compaq bundle heaps of services, software and support to sweeten the deal for finicky clients who have plenty of negotiating leverage. "All brands come with an unbelievable amount of management software, fast CPUs [central processing units] and everything else you need," says Roger Baumann of Affiliated Networks, a small Miami marine-parts e-commerce firm. "It comes down to who's going...
...Grape (which the fruit-impaired might also recognize as red, green, blue, orange, and purple). Those are the shades the iMac will now come in--part of Apple's push to make the marketing of the personal computer less a matter of megahertz and more of design. To sweeten the pie, the company is cutting the price by a hundred bucks, and, in a bow to today's instant nostalgia, selling the remaining first-edition iMacs (you remember, with that Bondi blue case that's SO five minutes ago) for a svelte...
Whitney Houston went into the studio planning to sweeten up a greatest-hits album with a few new songs; she ended up finishing a full new album. Arista chief Clive Davis says the project came together "literally in the last eight weeks...