Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find it easier to get to the rich content of the Web that way rather than through the suburban environment of AOL. But despite all these challenges and the predictions of doomsayers over the years, Case's company showed last week that it has at least the potential to thrive...
...where teens can buy MTV clothes and where Business Week and the New York Times come free with a subscription to AOL. (TIME is available on CompuServe; other Time Inc. publications are carried on AOL. Time Inc. has a joint venture with AOL to develop a health site called Thrive.) Case hopes for a service that is as clean, organized and trouble free as the manicured suburbs that surround AOL's Dulles headquarters. "There's an inside Silicon Valley syndrome that is out of touch with what consumers want," Case says. "Our market is everybody else." Internal research suggests "everybody...
...princess" could be dismissed as a form of collective hysteria that will die away as surely as the echo of muffled funeral bells. No tumbrels loom for a monarchy that still figures centrally in the British psyche and way of life. But if the monarchy is to survive and thrive in the new millennium, it will be because it has listened to its subjects and responded, not with mere tactical concessions--a waiving of protocol here, a letting slip of the mask there--but with the courage to think and act strategically...
...upped its funding for membership drives from 4% to 30% of its budget. The Teamsters are taking on nonunion Federal Express and Overnite Transportation, the largest group of unorganized truckers in the nation. Labor watchers say that for the unions to thrive, they need to shift their recruitment focus to the new information economy and away from the old manual one. But the union's targets still stress the less skilled end of the workers' spectrum--apple pickers in Washington state, hotel workers in Las Vegas. Whether these workers can provide a replacement for the iron and steel backbone...
...that all the time? Only the Unabomber would seriously suggest that we cut all ties to the wired world. The computer and its spreading networks convey status and bring opportunity. They empower us. They allow an information economy to thrive and grow. They make life easier. Hence the dilemma...