Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then we'll know whether this fall's Palace surge is a fad or a genuine paradigm shift, the Net's first step toward the three-dimensional virtual world that cyberpunk writers have envisioned for years. Imagine the capitalist dreams that cheap bandwidth and visual communities the size of shopping malls might fulfill: try-it-on Gaps; virtual town halls; online nightclubs with live video and sound. "I'm not sure that even the guys at E.C. know what the Palace's future is," says Foley. Like the Web browser before it, the Palace has a chance to become that...
...Boyadjiev says he is paid nearly $10 an hour, substantially higher than most student jobs. What's more, he enjoys the capitalist ethos...
...markets work best when they operate freely. But a week into the trial, the real battle seems to be between two warring views of Gates. Is he the brilliant innovator who has brought the wonders of the information age to millions of satisfied customers? Or is he the rapacious capitalist leveraging his software monopoly to crush competitors? How the courts view the world's richest man--his net worth is now upwards of $50 billion--more than what antitrust ideology they adopt will probably determine the outcome of what could be a landmark case...
...than a billion dollars later, that quick wit and peculiar go-for-the-jugular charm are still predominant in the man who was hired to pilot Netscape through Microsoft-infested waters--and who, on the witness stand, is proving to be Bill Gates' worst enemy. John Doerr, the venture capitalist and Johnny Appleseed of Silicon Valley who helped recruit Barksdale, refers to him as the "gold standard of CEOs...
Moscow officials met with a group of professors at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) last January to create a $500 million plan for making the city's housing more affordable by developing a capitalist real estate market...