Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is ground zero of the New Economy? At age five, Earth's Biggest Bookstore is now Earth's Biggest Selection, in keeping with Bezos' plan for world domination. Meaning what, exactly? Well, in a sense, Amazon isn't about technology or even commerce. Any moron can open an online store. The trick is showing millions of customers such a good time that they come back every few days for the next 50 years. Amazon is, like every other site on the Web, a content play...
...Bell Atlantic to become the first Baby Bell to offer long distance services. The move was decried by many of the consumer advocates who futilely fought against the Telecommunication Act of 1996, which paved the way for Baby Bells to provide long distance so long as they open their markets to competition. Earlier this year, when AT&T sought to get into the New York local market, Bell Atlantic opened its copper phone lines and basically said, "Let the games begin." But America is not revisiting the days of monolithic telecoms' inhibiting consumer choice. Indeed, most industry analysts predict that...
...need to listen with open minds to those who feel intimidated by the political process," she said...
Next Friday night, men and women around the world will gather together in massive mobs, expose themselves to the nefarious plots of international terrorists, crack open bottles upon bottles of cheap champagne, scream, hoot, and holler, all in celebration of--mathematical ignorance! Yes, folks, The Crimson Staff has given this matter a great deal of thought, and as we all depart for winter vacation, we'd like to say that we are firmly and unequivocally opposed to the millennium...
...TIME magazine ? what with him being our Man of the Year and all ? but it's important for us to remind ourselves that not everybody is quite so enamored of him. Take Richard Stallman, for example. Stallman, a top-flight computer programmer and a prominent spokesman for the open source movement, is calling for a boycott of Amazon.com...