Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GIRL BANDS GO DIGITAL Alanis Morissette and Courtney Love may be yesterday's news, but that hasn't stopped gamemakers from developing the first titles to cash in on female rock sensations. Um Jammer Lammy for the Sony PlayStation ($35) lets players tap their game pad in time with the beat of progressively more complex sounds. (It's harder than you think.) For more of a story line, Lego Friends ($30, available mid-September) lets girls six and up form their own virtual band, compose songs and try to win a competition. Rock...
Amid the grim, impersonal regularity of natural disasters, we are often unmoved by statistics. It is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home. In the devastated town of Duzce, a British rescuer wedged deep in a narrow crevice heard a tap-tap-tap so close he could almost touch whoever was making the sound. Then an aftershock cascaded masonry through the 30-ft. tunnel as the rescuers slithered back out. When they took another route and reached the spot where the tapping had been heard, two dead bodies lay there. "It hurts when it ends like this," team...
...raised nearly $7 million for AIDS relief and prevention. Says Ronald Johnson, managing director for public policy and communications at Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City: "What is significant is their fund raising does not compete with local AIDS service organizations. They tap basically new money, and that's very important...
...that Greenspan is good. Just two days after the Fed chairman raised interest rates to tap the economy?s brakes just a little, it?s already slowing down. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that GDP growth from the April-to-June quarter was actually 1.8 percent, instead of the 2.3 percent the government had estimated a month ago. In reality, of course, that has nothing to do with Tuesday?s action ?- even with a strong market reaction, an interest rate hike takes at least six months to reverberate through the economy ?- but it?s sure got plenty to do with...
...theory, tax incentives have two advantages over traditional government programs: (a) they're cheaper, because each dollar of lost tax revenue produces multiple dollars of the desired activity; and (b) they're smarter, because they tap into the creativity of the private sector. Both premises, though, are open to question...