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...Yahoo. After the end-of-session bell, the tech bellwether is expected by some to disappoint with its earnings report, thanks to a slowdown in the dot-com advertising sector. (Less new dot-coms these days, which means less new dot-com ad men bidding for space on prime-time portal Yahoo.) If Yahoo - which is unveiling some new voice-based services (read: potential revenue streams) Tuesday afternoon, possibly as a means of softening the blow for the earnings news - can please the Street, good vibrations for the dot-commerce sector could follow. If Yahoo disappoints, it's one more...
...NASA even get involved in this kind of private-sector silliness? How did the agency that made its name in the heady days of John Glenn and Neil Armstrong get mixed up with the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Michael Eisner? Part of the problem may be that NASA has simply put too many of its budgetary eggs in the space-station basket--scrapping in the meantime a number of smaller, worthier projects like its long-dreamed-of mission to Pluto (see box). As public interest in the giant orbiting construction project continues to wane, NASA has grown increasingly desperate...
...wife and I think she's saying, 'I think he should go out into the private sector,'" responded Lieberman...
...Microsoft case is one involving a fast-moving market and a critical sector of the economy. If any case deserved expedited review by the high court, this case should qualify. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court rejected the reasoning of Justice Stephen Breyer and decided otherwise. It is now in the interest of both justice and the nation's economic well-being that a final ruling be issued in the Microsoft case as soon as possible, and also that such a ruling take substantial measures to curb Microsoft's abuse of its disproportionate market power. Anything less would make a travesty...
...Dick, that you're better off than you were 8 years ago too." Replied Cheney, "And I can tell you, Joe, that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it." Lieberman: "I can tell my wife is out there, she wants me to go out in the private sector." Cheney: "I'm going to try to help you do that, Joe." Score it for Cheney - Lieberman's retort was lost in real live applause - but the thing was, everybody laughed. Real laughter...