Word: ued
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also tried to dispel fears that there isstill anti-U. S. sentiment in Russia. "Don'tbelieve there is anti-American sentiment. In 1990they thought you had a recipe about what we mustdo--no longer," he said...
...editorial espouses two contradictory views, both false. The attacks on Liston and the Undergraduate Council in general reflect a deep anti-U.C. cynicism that pervades The Crimson. Despite past wrongdoings, Liston has performed effectively as U.S. president so far, according to several U.C. members. Meetings are shorter and more efficient and numerous promising activities are in the planning stages...
...billion on fiber-optic cable and other equipment to bring two-way TV to 8 million homes by the year 2000. Another is Time Warner, which is neck and neck with TeleCommunications Inc. in the race to be the nation's largest cable company. Time Warner is teaming with U S West to test its notion of a state-of-the-art system in Orlando, Florida, as part of a $5 billion effort to build what the company calls its Full Service Network...
...early returns have been rather modest. In one test involving 200 homes in the Denver area, U S West, AT&T and TCI found that viewers ordered an average of only 2.5 films a month. But that was over a clunky system in which human attendants pulled videotapes from shelves and ran them on VCRs in response to calls placed by customers. When it is completed, the I-way is supposed to deliver thick bundles of electronic wares that could combine true video on demand with local, long-distance and wireless telephone services, which consumers now buy separately...
...these arrangements can also sow tension and slow progress, because they tend to unite friends and foes alike in potentially uncomfortable situations. Bell Atlantic and U S West are building separate electronic highways, for example, even as the two firms are allied in a project to provide wireless phone service. Time Warner and TCI are archrivals, yet they have teamed with Sega of America to form the Sega Channel, which could go out over the companies' superhighways. Entanglements like these have given rise to a new term: coopetition. Notes communications consultant Jeffrey Kagan: ``It can be very difficult to share...