Word: traded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What's up, Appz? You got skillz?" Skat asks, mugging for the camera. She steps back to read aloud his offer to swap pirated content for high-tech gear. "Appz wants to trade a Star Wars screener for a new motherboard PII 200 with a sound card...
...According to the National Foundation for Women Business Owners, there are now 9.1 million women-owned companies, making up 38% of all U.S. businesses, with a work force of 27.5 million and annual sales of $3.6 trillion. Among the fields in which female ownership is growing fastest: construction, wholesale trade, transportation and communications, agriculture and manufacturing. --Megan Rutherford...
...White Knight knows you hate politicians, and that you?ve got good reason to. They trade on your sense that the nation needs rescuing by a hero untainted by the stain of politics-as-usual ?- think Joan of Arc meets "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." The quintessential White Knight is the "Man on the White Horse," who quits a successful military career (or professional sports or show business, in less compelling versions) for politics. The White Knight?s secret is to always appear unlike "the rest of them," forced by patriotic duty to enter politics and save the nation from...
Those are the extreme cases, but even for the majority of users who don't qualify as addicts, the social effects of the parallel Internet universe are starting to emerge: e-mail is replacing conversation, e-trade is replacing interaction with real people in real stores. I don't mean to overstate the effect of the Internet, and I'm not sure I believe e-commerce will ever put the real thing out of business. Still, the trend away from "real," face-to-face interaction is unmistakable...
...quotas. Gore ?- and Hillary too ?- is counting on union support to win, and Clinton?s opposition is going to make them angry." It already has. The United Steelworkers of America arranged to have steelworkers descend on the Capitol today for a rally, reminding lawmakers (and law-vetoers) that global trade can affect votes. Will the Senate put West Virginia before world affairs, and pass the quota bill (it passed the House overwhelmingly in March)? Or will the Man of Steel (formerly the Man of Jell-O) prevail in his fight for ?- gasp ?- what he thinks is right...