Word: wave
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Compaq, which sells to individuals and businesses mainly through traditional computer retailers and sales offices, is on a similar growth curve. Compaq had 1996 revenues of $18.2 billion, more than triple its annual revenues just four years earlier. The industry's next wave of growth is being propelled by falling prices that put the cost of a machine closer to that of a household appliance. Houston-based Compaq introduced its Presario 2100 for $999 in February. Others have low-priced PCs too. Now the industry is bracing for a quantum leap in demand as people who previously couldn't afford...
...turned out otherwise. Robert Cailliau of CERN, Berners-Lee's earliest collaborator on the project, describes the Web's prevailing top-down structure: "There's one point that puts the data out, and you're just a consumer." He finds this model--whose zenith is the coming wave of so-called push technology--an "absolute, utter disaster...
...wave of sports media is evolving to the shorter, more succinct style: The blue bar flashing across the screen on ESPN2, the quick-hitting stories on the Internet, the often-accessed wire story page even The Crimson uses every...
...endless TV ads, a tie-in book and a Website game. The movie's budget went largely to transporting hundreds of cast and crew members to remote, often roadless locales in Turkey and Malta and manufacturing special effects like the rendering of the god Poseidon as a talking tidal wave...
Everything seems to be right on schedule for Radcliffe as it heads into Nationals. The players think much of the credit for this wave of success should go to their coaches, Lisa Gartner, Darlene Connors and Mary Dixey...