Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sistine Chapel or decipher James Joyce's Ulysses. Details once committed to memory--the name of a mountain pass, the curve of an exit ramp--will gain significance the more knowledge one acquires. Approaching the same point from a different direction will cause one part of the city to click into place in one's internal map as much as walking in Boston on Comm. Ave. cements the relationship between Back Bay and Fenway. And suddenly, a city that once seemed centerless will appear connected in ways that only the person who mapped it can understand, because the true...
Minutes after the ruling was handed down, the court could have seen that phenomenon in action. At the click of a mouse, the text of the opinion was piped across the Net and plastered on computer sites from New York City to Australia. A laptop computer in New York was used to "Netcast" the audio portion of an A.C.L.U. press conference to all corners of the earth. Chat rooms and message boards were choked with Net folk weighing in about what it all meant. Computer jocks even ventured forth into the sunlight for real-time, nonvirtual victory parties. "Let today...
...more efficient than ever. Among them: the demise of the cold war, which has lifted trade barriers and released millions of workers and billions of dollars for productive peacetime purposes; and the ubiquitous use of computers, which enables companies to book new orders or build new cars with the click of a mouse. Says Yardeni: "I'm a big believer that this high-tech revolution is a major contributor to productivity growth...
Things didn't click until the new players got used to each other and fit into their roles. Freshman Ashley Birch became a scorer and classmate Jeanne Ficociello proved to be good all-around. Their fellow first-year players also found their place; only one (Kim Weeks) did not see significant time...
Enter the Internet. Money and political power may be out of the reach of the many, but the nascent commodity of information needn't be. With the click of a search engine, anyone with a computer can access information that, until recently, was available solely to those wealthy enough to pay research assistants. Think your boss is taking advantage of you? Within minutes you can wave a complete copy of your company's labor relations history in his face...