Word: ken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finding an easy and safe way for people to spend money online in small amounts. "Right now there isn't really a viable way for consumers to pay for something that costs 50[cents], because that's about how much a credit-card transaction costs the merchant," says Ken Cassar, an analyst with the e-commerce research firm Jupiter Communications. "It's just not economical for online merchants to sell things that cost less than $10 or $20." Early attempts to create a practical alternative to credit cards for conducting financial transactions online have been slow to gain consumer confidence...
...Both Ken Reeves and Marjorie Decker are enigmas...or they're purposefully being contradictory," Winters said...
With Galluccio's election, the so-called "Ken Reeves Show"--in which Reeves frequently interjected in council proceedings to add his own personal anecdotes and to explain to the viewers at home the mind-numbing rules of the council--was finally cancelled...
...wisecracks; a lot of the country was going to be seeing him for the first time, and he needed to look like a Man Who Could Be President. "The only other speech that will be more important will be his acceptance speech at the convention," said his California coordinator, Ken Khachigian, who was traveling with the campaign through New Hampshire and South Carolina...
...have been fodder for documentaries (The Atomic Cafe, with the "duck-and-cover" Civil Defense shorts), for compilation reels (Sex Hygiene Scare Films from Something Weird Video) and for the canny gibe artists of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now they've been rescued and re-appraised by cultural critic Ken Smith in a droll, provocative study and accompanying video, Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945-1970 (both issued by Blast Books...