Word: instantly
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There are ways, however, in which Comitan is like life back home. I exercise daily at a gym; I eat Quaker Instant Oatmeal; I can have my photos developed in an hour; I can check my e-mail daily. American marketing is everywhere. Coca-Cola (a.k.a. "Coca") and Pepsi have made inroads to even the most remote towns--towns which still do not have running water. (I even visited a Mayan village where the bubbly has been incorporated into a sacred healing ceremony.) If you walk through Comitan in the late afternoon, you can hear the loud cheers...
...relations with Clinton, Barak hopes for what his mentor, assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, had achieved--direct, instant and frequent access to the President. In the weeks after his election, Barak resisted approaches of lesser U.S. officials, such as special envoy Dennis Ross, preferring to wait for a White House chat. Nor did Barak want his subordinates running relations. In a confidential memo, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright advised Clinton that the ex-general was secretive and didn't have a large circle of aides "who knew his mind." A one-on-one relationship with Barak, she said, would...
...wondering what I was doing out here in the middle of nowhere, is real world journalism at its best--the kind rarely practiced anymore since the advent of television and internet services. A journalist, my editor is fond of saying, must be skilled in becoming an instant expert at anything and everything and then passing on the knowledge to the public--all for tomorrow's paper...
...Plans for MSN Messenger were originally announced a year ago, with beta testing to begin August 1998. In the intervening months AOL's Instant Messenger user base has bulked up to about 25 million, more than the number of subscribers who pay to use AOL's main services. Still, as with all free Internet services, the numbers of active user accounts are undoubtedly inflated by the ease of registering. And despite these large audiences, no one has figured out how to make any money on the free chat service, except to note that the client program commands an outsized amount...
Microsoft announced Thursday that it had reverse engineered one of America Online's prize programs, the AOL Instant Messenger, and included the ability to exchange real-time messages with AOL users in its new MSN Messenger. The free MSN service can even monitor whether AOL users are logged in, mimicking AOL's wildly popular Buddy List service...