Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were listings for a whole lot of computer hardware. eBay started out free, but it quickly attracted so much traffic that Omidyar's Internet service upped his monthly bill to $250. Now that it was costing him real money, Omidyar decided to start charging. He concocted a fee scale similar to the one eBay uses today: a nominal fee for listing an item (10[cents] back then, as little as 25[cents] now) and a percent of the final sale price...
...their vehicles exploded in flames. Three hours later, more than 100 Russian corpses lay amid the wreckage, according to on-the-spot wire services. It was an awful replay of the head-on tactics that had cost Moscow so many casualties--and public support for the war--in a similar assault on Grozny five years...
...them holding atoms of hydrogen and the rest cesium. When excited by lasers or irradiated with microwaves, the atoms begin to dance with an utterly regular vibration that's monitored by computer. Once each second, the results are fed into America's Master Clock; the measurements from this and similar clocks around the world are sent to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures outside Paris--the ultimate timekeeping authority. It is there, next Friday, that the pulsing of billions of atoms will officially signal that civilization's odometer has turned over from...
...goals are vague and difficult to enforce, like a provision that the networks "cease any practice of ghettoizing 'black shows' whereby they are scheduled together on nights without white programming." That flies in the face of longtime programming principles of "audience flow"--scheduling shows that appeal to similar audiences together. Nor can the agreement force the networks to keep low-rated shows on the air or force advertisers to pay high rates for commercial time on them. While studies show that blacks watch far more television than non-blacks--about 70.4 hours a week and 50.2 hours, respectively--advertisers remain...
What is happening now in the breakaway republic of Chechnya [WORLD, Dec. 6] is similar to what happened in Waco, Texas, in 1993. In both cases a group of extremists was trying to undermine the authority of the established government. How can anyone condone the fbi's moves at Waco and at the same time condemn the actions of Russia in Chechnya? JOHN ZACHARIAS Scunthorpe, England