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Another literary source could have been the Warner Bros. film library. Time Warner officials were outraged that Disney had tried to wring commercial advantage out of the big merger, using the FTC and FCC examination of the deal as air cover for an opportunity to enhance Disney's bottom line. They sounded like Claude Rains in Casablanca, who would have been "Shocked! Shocked!" that one communications conglomerate would dare to profit at the expense of another...
...euro, introduced little more than a year ago, has been crucial in accelerating the pace of change. Those who wring their hands over its declining value in 1999 miss the point. "The euro has allowed Europe to almost completely overcome its historical weakness of market fragmentation," says Albert Bressand, economist and director of Paris' Promethee think tank. "It's created a larger, almost seamless economy roughly the size of the U.S. economy." The euro's undervaluation has, in fact, given European exporters a shot in the arm by lowering their prices in overseas markets. Most experts foresee a rise...
...world. Location becomes unimportant. You're not penalized for being a seller stuck in low-traffic, low-price Bismarck or a buyer shopping in high-cost Manhattan. Auctions also minimize transaction costs ("friction" in e-commerce-speak) and eliminate the need to operate bricks-and-mortar stores. Online auctions "wring out the inefficiencies in the supply-chain process," says FairMarket CEO Scott Randall. They also benefit from Metcalfe's Law (named after Robert Metcalfe, the founder of 3Com Corp.): the value of a network increases by the square of the number of people on it. Every time a conventional online...
...cultural phenomenon has been more studied and worried over than the effect of television on children. Parents wring their hands over content. Media watchdogs make careers launching competing studies. But while the grownups present position papers, guess what the kids are doing? They're alone in their bedroom, watching television. According to a major study measuring the media consumption of 3,000 kids, ages two to 18, released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the typical American kid spends about 5 1/2 hours a day "consuming" media (computers and music, but mainly TV) at home. For kids eight...
...Wring dry and lay flat on the top rack of a dishwasher. Use lemon-scent detergent and wash the shirt with "pot-scrubber" (two cycles) and "heated dry" (two cycles). The shirt should be fairly stiff, crunchy and a lighter shade of gray...