Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everything is so high tech and ready to fly, why hasn't Clinton given the order? In part because military force can do some things and not others. "If we are given the execute order," says a senior officer on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, "we'll execute well. I just don't think anybody believes these results are going to be particularly satisfying...
...company's highest-earning market was Asia, where other tech blue-chippers have had troubles recently. Consumer business in the Americas has nearly doubled since last year. Across the board, from high-end orders to over-the-Internet sales, business is booming. And shareholders, already in ecstasy after watching the stock jump 30 points since January, can look forward to another treat: Dell also announced a stock split for March...
...several years, Netscape has been one of a handful of tech firms to really shine among both Wall Street analysts and the bloodhounds of the Fourth Estate. Netscape, along with such darlings as AOL and Pixar, enjoyed very positive press while seeing its initial public offering soar to meteoric levels...
...children, scores of them, scattering like snowflakes, and the strangled cries of some costumed chanters. Innocent and esoteric by turn, the first Olympic opening ceremonies to have their very own 15th century landscape poster introduced the world to what might be seen as Japan's latest brand of high-tech traditionalism: a sumo wrestler and a schoolgirl walking hand in hand...
...many of us, Japan has come to mean crowded trains, high-tech gadgets, efficient systems, cool reserve--a neon blur, in the imagination, of pencil-thin high-rises in which traders in dark suits mutter into cell phones. Or, if not the hard realism of Tokyo's office blocks, then the gossamer romance of Kyoto's teahouses, all exquisite restraint and antique silence. Though both these sides are suddenly in evidence in Olympic Nagano, for most of its life the city and the village venues all around it have offered a down-home, uncrowded, friendly Japan where some...