Word: moneys
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After the story was published Wednesday morning in the San Jose Mercury News, mobs of Silicon Valleyites left their monitors and lined up to receive $400 of Microsoft's money. At one Best Buy store in Milpitas, Calif., more than 125 customers lined up to get the rebate, and some had to be turned away...
...profit by it. Giving $400 to every person in California would cost Microsoft more than $12 billion; but then again, with a $500 billion market value, Microsoft can afford it. In the meantime, let's all thank Bill Gates, and then go out and buy a computer with his money...
...NASA was right to expect a smooth landing. "Until the day when we can survey the entire planet with incredibly high precision, which is probably 100 years away, you can't control exactly where you're going to land," says Lemonick. "It would be absurd for Congress to take money away from NASA because of this." Maybe so, but for $250 million the public is going to want at least a few photographs...
...horizon, Jaroff says there are many ways to engage, deflect or destroy the giant rocks, including the controlled use of nuclear bombs, whose blasts could nudge the asteroids off their collision course with Earth. While all this research costs a taxpayers pretty penny, Jaroff points out the money is really pretty insignificant, especially when "the alternative is total annihilation...
...blockbuster commercial 1984 introduced the Apple Macintosh to the PC market. Perhaps more important, it established the Super Bowl as the unofficial high holiday of capitalism--the launch pad for baroque, high-profile ads that today generate more excitement than the game. (And why not? There's more money riding on them.) This fun, edifying, hourlong survey, narrated by Frank Gifford, hits more than 50 highlights, from Bud Bowls I and II to Dan Quayle's pitching Lays potato (without an "e") chips...