Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just 3 min. And since I'm not a gamer, I wasn't worried that my new PC lacked a 3-D graphics accelerator or top-of-the-line processor. Compared with my poky, four- year-old 75-MHz Pentium home PC, even this low-end model (by today's standards) is a screamer...
...American Express and Southwest Airlines, along with much smaller outfits, are laying out more than $55.3 billion annually--almost twice what they spent in the mid-1980s--on training. And the hottest new training device is the offsite, a company- or department-wide session away from the office. But today's offsite isn't a few meetings in a windowless hotel banquet room followed by a round of golf and cocktails. More likely it's built around a truly exotic challenge, like white-water rafting, tightrope walking, adventure racing, even cooking. The common denominator: it's a group task unrelated...
...asked if she has any neck injuries. "I was extremely frightened," she recalls later. An employee of the TV-ad-sales company Adlink, based in Los Angeles, Johnson has already walked a tightrope and shouted strings of nonsense words in a rhythm exercise to a group of colleagues today. Now she's being asked to make a "trust fall" backward off a ladder into the arms of a dozen virtual strangers. Taking a deep breath, she says, "I, Lorrie, choose to fall." And fall she does. "When they caught me, it was such tremendous relief and exhilaration," she says afterward...
...working. In the past few years the average late fee has soared 75%, from around $12 in 1995 to more than $21 at the end of last year, according to Consumer Action. Today charges run as high as $35 a pop, helping propel industry-wide fee revenue, which now accounts for nearly 20% of all revenue, from $10 billion in '96 to $19 billion in '98, according to CardWeb.com Financial giants Citigroup, Bank One and Chase just reported strong second-quarter earnings, fueled by double-digit growth in credit-card income...
Sources: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, Center for Responsive Politics, USA Today, City of Trenton