Word: numbering
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...nearly 30 years that followed, Levin rose to become one of the most powerful men in media, just as Case has rocketed to a similar throne in cyberspace. Their union last week was cemented by a number trailed by so many zeros that it was easy to miss the fact that more than anything, this was a marriage of two protogeeks. Case, who began his romance with computers by building his own Kaypro PC, and Levin, whose love of media began when he was tucked in bed as a child, snug as a bug, he recalls, listening...
...Week ($47 million), a TV-information service called Teletext ($30 million) and, most famous, the Full Service Network in Orlando, Fla. (in excess of $100 million). You don't screw up like that and survive if you're just a waxen flack. But Levin's legacy also includes a number of sharp, Net-speed pivots when his business has demanded them. He considered, for instance, selling Time Warner's stake in Turner Broadcasting just months before deciding it was actually in the best interest of both firms to arrange a merger...
...myself to the woman who answered. She asked surprisingly early in our relationship if I was having "technical difficulties" and seemed pleased when I insisted that everything was A-O.K. But when I told her who I was, she immediately said she couldn't talk and gave my number to AOL spokeswoman Tricia Primrose. She too was nervous about having her name in this article. My new company, it seems, has spokespeople who are scared of speaking. I told her I was a writer who was afraid of writing. That's the kind of bonding I figured co-workers...
...Number of Iranians who in 1999 pledged to sell their kidneys to fund the fatwa against Salman Rushdie...
...number of consumer e-commerce sites had multiplied tenfold in 10 months while the marketing machine went into overdrive, flooding the airwaves with ads (and making broadcast radio and TV networks arguably the season's biggest winners). An estimated 26.4 million Americans shopped online between Thanksgiving and New Year's, and total online sales reached $5 billion, treble those of 1998, according to Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass...