Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unions. "You used to be able to walk in without a deposit slip, and they'd just hand you one," says Skip Shipman, a florist in Woodstock, Ga., whose local bank was acquired by McColl in 1996. "Then NationsBank started charging a dollar for a deposit slip." After a wave of protests, the bank halted the practice last year. But complaints persist about other fees and services...
...XF11 colliding with Earth at more than 38,000 m.p.h. would explode with the energy of 300,000 megatons--nearly 20 million times the force of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima. If it hit in the ocean, he predicted, it would cause a tsunami (commonly called a tidal wave) hundreds of feet high, flooding the coastlines of surrounding continents. "Where cities stood," he said, "there would be only mudflats." A land hit, he calculated, would blast out a crater at least 30 miles across and throw up a blanket of dust and vapor that would blot...
...found. As one stresses out in the last few minutes before the flight departure, one has to wonder whether there is an easier way to get home. Karen Kennedy, a representative of Delta Airlines, gives a resounding "yes" when she says the answer can be found in "the new wave in ticketing...
...near future, then, streaming audio in the form of Internet broadcasts and on-line radio simulcasts are the wave of the future, breathing new life into an old medium while meeting the technical demands...
...wave of competitors rushed in, but most missed the point of the Pilot's success. With few exceptions, like the Sharp SE- 500 and Texas Instruments' well-designed Avigo, the competing devices still tried to do too much. Those that tried to do it with Microsoft's first, hastily cobbled together version of Windows CE 1.0 posed little threat to the Palm. Their keyboards were tiny, and entering data was a hassle. WinCE 1.0 was clearly not ready for prime time...