Word: dollarized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Bill Gates scrutinizes each project and often asks very specific questions. In one series of internal e-mail messages provided to TIME, Gates asked who would own the intellectual property arising from a particular vaccine program. Another exchange had him doubting that the per-dollar impact of a given program is "super-high...
...pressure on the Japanese government to step up efforts to find his 21-year-old daughter. This is a particularly embarrassing case because it involves one of the shadier sides of Tokyo life - the booming business in trafficking attractive Western women to Japanese businessmen willing to pay top dollar for the chance to sit next to and fondle blondes...
...Before 'Survivor' ever aired, the Naval Special Warfare Archives page www.navyfrogman.com reported that Rudy won the million-dollar prize on April 19, 2000." The evidence has presumably been removed, but this search does turn up the site...
...move, King will be offering chapter one of his next opus, "The Plant," on the Internet, where readers will be able to print it right off the screen without any intermediary transaction. But in order to keep the page-turner scrolling, King fans will have to pony up a dollar per installment - and hope that their fellow readers are equally honorable: If less than 75 percent of people who download pay up, King will simply stop posting chapters, and no one will find out what happens. And that might even include King, who hasn't written the book...
...powerful chip that enables laptops to function without cumbersome disc drives. "American chipmakers are going to have to copy our design or risk losing the market," crowed Masuoka. Instead, Toshiba balked at mass production. Eventually, Intel swooped in and within a few years held 85% of the multibillion-dollar market...