Word: venal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...checked with friends at HotWired, CNET, CNN Interactive and other Websites, and everyone was optimistic. ("Cha-ching!" was how a pal at HotWired put it.) The more traffic to your site, you see, the more you can charge advertisers, theoretically. That may sound venal, but it's been lean out here. A lot of Websites have died for lack of revenue. Thanks to IE 4, traffic is way up, in some cases more than 25%. Within two weeks, visits at TIME Daily doubled, to 500,000 page views a week. We still have to convince advertisers that people...
...looks bloated, and his face wears defeat as its due. The sheriff of a Jersey suburb overrun by venal New York City cops, he is seen as a genial buffoon. Even the metallic voice of a video game tells him, "You have no authority." He seems almost at ease with his fate--one of those rare men who don't dare to dream or think of themselves as hero material. Imagine an older Rocky Balboa who got clobbered until he was half deaf, and whose Adrian dumped him to marry the town scumball...
...Hong Kong's handover [ONE COUNTRY, MANY SYSTEMS, June 30] is that neither the Chinese monarchists, Nationalists nor Communists in their succession have been able to accomplish on the mainland what the British did through their colonial administration of Hong Kong. Colonialism, in general, has had an ugly and venal past, but not so the British version. To be sure, the British may seem to be stereotypically aloof, superior and uncompromising, but wherever the British went they performed better than their predecessors and successors. They brought democracy and made a better civilization. Moreover, they fostered in their subjects the cultural...
...that suits Drudge, 30, just fine. The son of a lawyer and a social worker, he worked his way into the celebrity-gossip business from the bottom--the CBS gift shop at Studio City. He sees himself as a kind of digital Robin Hood among a corrupt and venal press. "Journalists aren't supposed to make money," he says, in a tone that's spoiling the taste of my Frappucino. "I've got enough to feed me and the cat, Dexter. And enough to shine my shoes...
...Donald Antrim, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace, last year's young literary comet. Only two months after Franzen's complaint, Wallace made a connection with Infinite Jest, his 1,000-page opus about an early 21st century North America splintered by drugs, fanatics and a business ethic so venal that even the months of the year have product names...