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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...revenues to Google and Yahoo. By consolidating their websites into a mammoth network, they could sell ads across the board. Hooking up would be a defensive play too. Google raised $4.1 billion in a stock offering last week and has been encroaching on Microsoft's most precious turf, the computer desktop. Microsoft is worried about falling further behind Google in the Web-search races and would love to get AOL to replace its Google search engine with Microsoft's. The AOL unit could fetch as much as $20 billion on the market, and spinning off a piece in a joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dear Google, I Have Found Another Suitor | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

...INVESTMENT Our government must put billions of dollars into aviation infrastructure, from airports to air-traffic control to security. This needs to be done in a rational way, without rhetoric, turf wars and political pork. We need real leadership at the national level to set a game plan and stand up to members of Congress who want to waste money on local boondoggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Fix the Airline Mess | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

...water reactor for North Korea as part of a deal to quash the country's nuclear weapons program. That deal unraveled in 2002. Today, President Hu would be glad for any type of agreement. He has presented his country as capable of brokering a difficult agreement on its home turf, so he'll look bad if the talks fail. Plus, he'll face the downside of a nuclear-armed loonocracy just across the Yalu River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China's Not Backing Bush on Iran | 9/15/2005 | See Source »

...blog’s estimation, the city of New Orleans owned at least 569 buses capable of ferrying out 33,350 people in a single trip. Why did Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco not declare a state of emergency immediately after the hurricane hit, instead becoming embroiled in an administrative turf war with the federal government? Furthermore, why did she have to be compelled by President Bush to make the evacuation of New Orleans compulsory? What exactly has New Orleans homeland security director Colonel Terry Ebbert done since his appointment in February, and what, besides infantile whining, has he accomplished since...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: Putting Blame Where it Belongs | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

Meanwhile, there is still an issue of professional turf left to resolve. High-tech imaging--particularly CT scanning--has long been the purview of radiologists, many of whom don't take kindly to cardiologists encroaching on their territory. After all, it has happened before. Radiologists used to perform lots of cardiac catheterizations but have pretty much given up that technique to heart specialists, in large part because they were simply outnumbered. As for who is best at reading cardiac CT scans, cardiologists argue that they have a better understanding of the heart's anatomy and function, while radiologists point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How New Heart-Scanning Technology Could Save Your Life | 8/28/2005 | See Source »

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