Word: statement
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...industry and Napster may turn out to be one of the great trials of the digital age. Earlier this year the Microsoft antitrust case spelled out the rules for how high-tech companies can and can't compete with one another. The Napster case may make an equally bold statement about what intellectual property rights will exist in the new economy. If the ruling goes the industry's way, as many expect, it could bring an end to the brief era in which all sorts of music were readily available for free download on the Internet. It could, conceivably, mean...
WAYNE, N.J.--Seat belt guru and presidential hopeful Ralph Nader says a strong democracy doesn't tolerate a culture of everything-for-sale. Though innocuous by itself, the statement's implication--in the context of Nader's anti-corporate rants--is that American democracy is in the crapper...
...ignoring her core audience. She was also going out with a Supremes reconstituted from Motown slurry, with the best seats priced at $500 a pair. Sure enough, the Supremes' Return to Love tour derailed last week after 14 dates, many played to half-empty houses. Ross released a statement claiming that tour promoter SFX had canceled the remaining shows, while SFX, which is reportedly paying Ross $20 million, begged to differ, claiming that only certain shows had been canceled. At issue, of course, is money. If Ross pulls the plug, SFX can sue her for breach of contract and reclaim...
DIED. JAN KARSKI, 86, former Polish diplomat who provided to the West early eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust in World War II, and whose reports on the Warsaw ghetto and a Nazi death camp led to the Allies' statement in 1942 condemning German crimes against the Jews; in Washington...
...Gore has an opportunity to make his own statement against a gray backdrop. He'll have the spotlight, and he'll have to show us his moves. He can match greybeards with George Mitchell; he can gamble on Florida with Bob Graham; he can clone his better self with Evan Bayh. He could even get weird with Warren Christopher. He'd be risking it with a woman, because this is still a country that elects men to its highest office. Would he drop a bomb like Jesse Ventura, thinking he could harness him? Maybe he'll convince natty banker Robert...