Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to express my sympathy to the family and friends of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was gay [NATION, Oct. 26]. The murder of this young man is a crime against humanity. I was born in an era when homosexuality was even more misunderstood than it is today, and it was a criminal offense...
...seized power. The Fanjuls arrived just as a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to control the flow of water in the Florida Everglades made large-scale development possible. The total acreage planted in sugar cane there soared--from 50,000 acres in 1960 to more than 420,000 today...
...that by 2002, U.S. handheld sales will triple to 6.9 million units--about the same number of notebooks sold in the U.S. this year. Why are consumers so keen on handhelds? While failed products like the Apple Newton tried to handle too many tasks, says IDC analyst Jill House, today's handhelds perform just a few basic organizing functions extremely well...
...online is the big dream," says Tom Miller of Cyber Dialogue, a technology market-research firm. That's not surprising, since e-commerce is expected to create a financial tidal wave of more than $300 billion early in the next century. The slight percentage of small-business online sales today--7%--suggests that a boom may be just over the horizon...
...conference with the boys in Osaka is in 45 minutes. You've got to go through the spreadsheets again, rehearse your talking points and check your e-mail from the lawyers. Why are you lying in bed? Because you can. With 11 million telecommuters in the U.S. today, corporate America is sending a message: stay home. By the year 2000, the number of telecommuters are expected to reach around 30 million as the technology gets even cheaper and makes it easier to hang out and teleconference in your...