Word: virtually
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...COMMERCE WITH A GREEN THUMB Point your mouse toward www.garden.com for a virtual gardening store with an environmental bent. Texas-based Garden.com claims that more than half its 16,000 products, like a rodent-repelling spray made from rotten eggs, are organic and annoying only to pests...
...just over a year ago, Amazon shelled out $180 million for a price-comparison site called junglee.com They tinkered around with its virtual database technology until relaunching it last week as the more prosaically named All Product Search. Wall Street was buying, sending Amazon's stock...
...already calling it MSMIT. Software giant Microsoft is funding the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a five-year, $25 million research venture called "Project I-Campus" to develop technology to enhance higher education. Projects under consideration include the improvement of long-distance learning via the Internet, web-based virtual museums and "global classrooms...
...last deals to survive the 1986 tax reform, which snuffed out breaks on a wide range of consumer loans. The reform left home-equity loans in a virtual monopoly position that has in turn ignited a lending boom. By next year the total of outstanding home-equity loans--after subtracting repayments--is expected to hit $500 billion, vs. $34 billion in 1988. New borrowings have gone as high as $268 billion a year...
That was not the only miscalculation by a candidate who cites chaos theory as a favorite scientific principle. Gore spent the first six months of 1999 surrounded by a virtual asteroid belt of orbiting pollsters, message advisers, family retainers, backseat drivers and policy hangers-on. All wanted a say in campaign strategy, but few were committed enough to give up their day jobs--many of which involved deep, complicated ties to other politicians and corporate interests. Amid all this advice, the one tip Gore might have done well to take came early on from Bill Clinton, who told others that...