Word: virtually
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Despite their differences with IBM, Microsoft and Intel seem to have inherited some of Big Blue's most fearsome qualities. They have become so dominant in their markets, charge critics, that they are virtual monopolies. In a way eerily reminiscent of the Justice Department's famous 1969 trust- busting suit against IBM (dismissed after 13 years), both Intel and Microsoft are under investigation for possible antitrust violations...
Computer wizards play the game of virtual reality. Clinton, like Ronald Reagan before him, mastered a more dangerous skill -- virtual fantasy -- and the nation played along. During the long presidential campaign, TV screens showed Clinton gradually transformed, morphed, from a wannabe to a has-been to a third-place candidate to a front runner. And from a politician to a youthful superstar. He was fresh, and everyone else was tired...
...became clear to NBC that its only chance of keeping Letterman was to dump Leno as Tonight host and give Letterman the job -- something NBC executives had publicly ruled out. What's more, a "poison pill" in Letterman's CBS contract made the 11:30 time period a virtual sine qua non of any deal. The CBS contract promised Letterman a $50 million penalty payment if his show was not aired at 11:30. Since NBC, to keep Letterman, was required to match CBS's monetary deal, it would have had to include the same penalty payment -- effectively forcing...
...million. There is a TV cartoon show, a theater-style attraction at the Universal Studios theme park and a legion of annual conventions of "Trekkers." A retrospective exhibit of Star Trekiana was held at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum earlier this year, and a chain of "virtual reality" Star Trek entertainment centers will open across the country next year...
...bigger than a magazine. The system, which could be available throughout New York City and in other major TV markets by mid-1994, can deliver as many channels as cable TV without the expense of having to wire up each individual home -- a prospect that could threaten the virtual monopoly that many cable companies currently enjoy...