Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former pro wrestler Jesse ("the Body") Ventura, but the Vikings are sure trying. New team owner Red McCombs, coach Green and a squad of bad boys and second-chancers are defying expectations. Start with Moss. Despite his tainted image, he has emerged as perhaps the league's most exciting wide receiver. And Cris Carter, who admitted to abusing cocaine and alcohol early in his career, is bolstering his standing as the all-time best receiver in Viking history...
...doubted that Moss, a wide receiver from Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va., was supremely talented: at 6 ft. 4 in. he was speedy and sure-handed. But 19 NFL teams had passed over Moss in the draft because of a record that included a couple of arrests, a probation violation and a one-month stint in jail...
DAVID GELERNTER, a computer science professor at Yale, was asked to write about Bill Gates. One nerd discussing another? Hardly. Those familiar with Professor Gelernter know him as a wide-ranging (one book topic: the 1939 World's Fair) and engaging writer, who was also a target of the Unabomber's. Those unfamiliar with him will be surprised by his provocative story on the world's best-known businessman...
...Internet browser known as Netscape Navigator 1.0 was launched, and the world--or at least the World Wide Web--changed with the click of a mouse. Within four months 75% of all Net users were peering at the Web through the window of the Netscape browser. Netscape's co-founder Marc Andreessen and his band of brainy programmers grabbed the world's fastest-growing market despite an entrenched competitor: NSCA Mosaic, the breakthrough browser Andreessen himself had helped write as a student at the University of Illinois...
...organized Bancitaly Corp. as a launching pad for statewide expansion. That was succeeded in 1928 by TransAmerica Corp., a holding company with wide interests in financial services, including some overseas banks. That same year he bought Bank of America in New York, one of the city's oldest lending institutions...