Word: tinier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...iMac's keyboard is so small that composing an e-mail with those translucent black keys (so chic!) is more of a nuisance than a joy. The function keys are tinier than the average Undergraduate Council grant. And those miniscule arrow keys, about the size of a worn-down eraser? Please. It isn't much use to be able to access the Web quickly if you can't type the correct address. Crowning these indignities, the iMac has no delete button, only backspace--so to fix your mistakes, you have to use those *#&@$% arrow keys...
...connection) payments might have to be reduced. And a larger government deficit makes a default more likely. But the chance of the government's defaulting either on its bonds or its Social Security obligations is infinitesimal, and the effect of even a $150 billion deficit on this chance is tinier...
This business model may be contagious; a few weeks after Tonic's first press release, William Semich, executive editor of the industry trade publication WebWeek (now Internet World), announced his own ".nu" domain registry, based on the even tinier (pop. 2,000) South Pacific island of Niue. (Semich says he started his venture months earlier...
...WORST Technology is pushing us toward the tinier and thinner, but car companies (encouraged by buyers) keep making sport-utility vehicles bigger. As well as pollution and gas consumption, this leads to bigger garages, bigger parking lots and, yikes, bigger fluffy dice...
...home-tech consumers, this holiday season provides a rare bounty. Televisions, digital videodisc players and home computers are better, cheaper and less risky purchases than ever before. Camcorders are tinier; cordless phones more powerful. Half-size ovens cook in half the time...