Word: superhighways
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...inundated by an advertisement for the immigration-law services of Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel. Despite the ensuing outcry, the lawyers defended their practice, called their detractors anti-free speech "zealots" and wrote a book about the practice titled How to Make a Fortune on the Information Superhighway. Pandora's Box had been opened...
...city's roads. The flurry of work was all done in anticipation of what was heralded as the dawn of a new era: At long last, East Africa would be connected to an undersea fiber-optic Internet cable, and with it, to the planet's cheap, high-speed information superhighway...
...Drehle clan out of our gas hog and into a phone booth-sized vehicle powered by switchgrass and meditation. Unfortunately, with four kids, all in grade school, we need a minivan. So is this program for us? To find out, I took a ride on the information superhighway to www.fueleconomy.gov, which is an easy way to compare the efficiency of just about every car imaginable...
...phone customers across the U.S. and combined revenues of more than $16 billion, making it by far the largest of the seven Baby Bell companies that were spun off from AT&T in 1984. Most important, the merger would hasten the arrival of what has been called the ''electronic superhighway,'' a widely heralded (and sometimes wildly hyped) system that will soon deliver to American homes everything from video games and movies on demand to vast video shopping malls. By adding high-speed switches to the cable wires that serve TCI's 10.7 million customers, Bell Atlantic would enable the subscribers...
...ever met, and he had too many things going on to let Ray Smith run things. I think it says that John is ready to try something different.'' The two men are an odd couple by any standard. While they share a passionate vision of the superhighway, their personalities and backgrounds are a study in contrasts. Smith, an amateur actor and the divorced father of four, has played supporting roles in Pittsburgh productions of such dramas as A Doll's House and Death of a Salesman. He is also a writer who saw his play, The Fetal Pig, a comedy...