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...ability to meet almost any demand. Global Crossing, an international telecommunications company, is building a $2 billion fiber-optic network that will encircle and crisscross South America, connecting with existing superfast cable lines to Europe, the U.S. and Asia by 2001. The lines will improve connectivity in the region tenfold. Starting this May the Americas II cable system will connect Brazil, the Caribbean and South America's northeast corner to the U.S. A region-wide $1.5 billion Telefonica system will be operational...
...contracts are worked out with personal attorneys and don't usually have to be filed in court, so it's impossible to determine exactly how widespread they are. But veteran lawyers say the number of mid-marriage agreements has exploded in the past five years, perhaps as much as tenfold...
...number of consumer e-commerce sites had multiplied tenfold in 10 months while the marketing machine went into overdrive, flooding the airwaves with ads (and making broadcast radio and TV networks arguably the season's biggest winners). An estimated 26.4 million Americans shopped online between Thanksgiving and New Year's, and total online sales reached $5 billion, treble those of 1998, according to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass...
...proof of preschool's greater appeal, consider that while Bill Clinton's most famous domestic policy gaffe is his botched stab at health care reform, his tenfold expansion of Head Start's budget has been virtually unopposed. That's political currency for Gore, who's made an art form of denouncing the President's failures and taking credit for his successes. For Bradley, who's been playing catch-up since the campaign season began, Gore's proposal just widens the gap. Where's Willis Reed when he needs...
Such dedication is typical of sheepdog trialers--and it is reciprocated. "Dogs give you their all," says MacRae, sipping black coffee. "They return any affection tenfold. They're not gonna say nothin' behind your back." A grin creases the guru's windburned face. "On the whole, they're just nicer than folk...