Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...could outrun any boy in her neighborhood--but important. Watching Charles and Diana's wedding on TV, she asked her mother why no one ever rolled out red carpets for her. So naturally, before her first Olympics, she knew she'd win five track-and-field gold medals. Even a phenomenon's reach must exceed her sprint: Jones won three golds and two bronzes. Unfortunately, that was not the only weight she would have to wear around her neck in Sydney. After she won her first gold, devastating the field in the women's 100 m, came news that...
...didn't realize that the task was too hard, that people were too selfish to share, that big companies would shut him down. By the end of 2000, Napster had upended music's business model, survived a legal threat and found a sponsor in Bertelsmann, the media behemoth. Even if it wasn't supposed to happen this way, music may finally have changed the world...
...Orwellian. From Disney and Microsoft to a lowly Internet service provider in Oshkosh, Wis., competitors began turning up the heat. Separately, press accounts of AOL's take-no-prisoners approach to its business partners made the Internet entrepreneurs seem as predatory as the cable guys. By this fall, even the American Civil Liberties Union was claiming that the new company could be dangerous...
...inequity is in competitive balance. Only four or five teams could afford even to consider bidding for A-Rod's services or those of, say, Cleveland Indians outfielder Manny Ramirez, who last week signed the game's second richest contract, $160 million for eight years with the Boston Red Sox. Even the demands of mid-level players are soaring beyond the reach of less well-heeled clubs. Kevin Appier, who is hardly Pedro Martinez and isn't even Kevin Brown, will be paid $10 million a year after signing with the New York Mets last week, and the average major...
...getting out anyway. Kind of. He tapped a successor, Jeffrey Immelt, but postponed his planned April retirement to oversee GE's acquisition of Honeywell. His memoirs, planned for spring, earned a $7.1 million advance, which he plans to donate to charity. Welch, 65, turned staid GE into a dynamic, even hot business--in part by laying off 100,000 workers in the '80s, earning the nickname "Neutron Jack." He has since cultivated a gentler image; he refused to wear a jacket for this photo, saying, "I don't want to look stuck...