Word: middlemen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...empire collapses?" Then in 1992 we got "change vs. the status quo," which meant "Isn't it time to host a revolution of our own?" But now, as Bob Dole cinches his party's nomination to do battle with Bill Clinton, we find that the race is between two middlemen with rather similar ideas about what government should do, both committed to change only at the margins. And so voters are left with a different kind of question...
...will still be a tough sell. It runs slower than conventional languages, and the software libraries that streamline a programmer's task are still being written for Java. But Java offers would-be software moguls something no other programming environment can: a way to completely bypass the software-industry middlemen. "These wonderfully brilliant Marc Andreessens will stay up all night eating Twinkies, drinking Jolt and writing in Java," predicts Sun's McNealy. "Then they'll put something out on the Web, and boom!--word of mouth!" The trick, which Microsoft has mastered but Sun and Netscape have not, will...
...Gates' vision, the information superhighway leads not to a global village but to a virtual marketplace where, by a process he calls friction-free capitalism, buyers and sellers can exchange goods and services without paper money, malls or middlemen. Except, of course, for the ultimate middleman, Microsoft--which, in return for making those electronic transactions secure and reliable, plans to collect a small toll off each and every...
...nephrology at the government-run Victoria Hospital. He was accused of having referred his poorer patients to private hospitals in the city as potential kidney donors and of receiving a 15% commission on every resulting transplant. Also arrested were a general practitioner, Dr. Syed Audil Ahmed, and two alleged middlemen. They were charged with having induced or deceived an estimated 1,000 poor villagers into donating kidneys to recipients from India, Singapore, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, who paid as much as $10,000 for a transplant...
More than 90,000 glassy-eyed technology middlemen tramped through the cavernous Las Vegas Convention Center last week, looking for the best of what's new, what's hot and what's cool in Gadgetland and putting together their wish list for next Christmas. What they found was an electronic melting pot -- a million square feet of whirring appliances and beeping devices that are turning into one another faster than you can say digital convergence. Telephones are morphing into televisions. Televisions are evolving into computers. Computers are turning into video games. And they're spawning a new breed of gimcracks...