Word: though
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...Though I had remembered much about high school, I had forgotten how mind-numbingly boring it was. I wasn't able to sit through one non-lunch class. And it wasn't helping that my fellow students weren't the rowdy kids I was hoping for. Not one ran in the halls, screamed or attempted to escape through the wide-open cafeteria door. That is, besides...
These are just a few of the signs of an Internet culture blossoming in Latin America, unevenly, in patchwork fashion, but in an accelerating rush. In just two years, the region has become the Internet world's next big thing. Though its connectivity rates are still low in comparison with the U.S.'s--only about 2% of Latin America's 500 million people are online, while more than half of Americans are--telecommunications analysts say it is the fastest-growing market in the world. They predict that by 2003 the networked region will reach anywhere from 29.6 million...
TAXING THE INTERNET On one side are state officials, who fear that tax-free e-commerce will erode sales-tax receipts. On the other side are dotcoms and antitax partisans, who argue that a sales tax would stifle e-commerce. The issue poses a dilemma for small businesses: though reflexively antitax, many believe dotcoms are reaping an unfair price advantage from the tax-free Web. Both Gore and Bush favor extending the moratorium but stop there. How tough is this issue? A blue-ribbon panel at press time voted 10-8 not to tax the Internet. Their recommendation has been...
What really distinguishes the biztiques, though, is the attention they lavish on guests. Doormen remember your name, and desk managers keep a record of which rooms you've stayed in and note the Champagne you prefer. Peter McKillop, director of corporate communications for J.P. Morgan in Asia, was enthralled when he heard that the hotel operator at the Lowell had intercepted an unwanted early wake-up by graciously asking a caller in Tokyo whether she realized it was 4:30 a.m. in New York City. XV Beacon supplied an interior decorator for a guest's new home in Boston...
...with national bargaining power. A bill proposed by Republican Representative James Talent of Missouri would allow this and make small business exempt from mandates too. But AHPs have strong opposition from large insurers and Democrats, including Gore, who do not favor private-sector solutions for health-care problems. Republicans, though, see AHPs as a potent plank in their election-year health-care platform. Indeed, in his $42 billion health-care reform plan, the "New Prosperity Initiative" unveiled in April, Bush proposed that AHPs be offered to small-business owners through trade associations...