Word: ton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Strategically, Sony is taking the plunge into the digital, wired world. It had little choice. Sony got rich and famous by building a series of great gadgets--the transistor radio, the Walkman, Trinitrons--that took advantage of unique technical advances, like those in miniaturization. Although Sony still makes a ton of money on Walkmans, its competitive edge in such stand-alone products is fading in a world where music and video are increasingly being rendered in the digital language of computers. So Sony is making personal computers with Intel, Net-surfing hardware for Microsoft's WebTV and cell phones...
...year five of Interscope's albums have hit the Top 10, including the bland pop-rock act the Wallflowers, smooth R.-and-B. quartet Blackstreet, and shock rocker Marilyn Manson. "They keep things lean and focused," says Geoff Mayfield, charts editor of Billboard magazine. "They don't have a ton of acts, but they have a very high batting average with the ones they...
...Kvant, where the unmanned ship would actually dock. Shining a laser range finder out the stern porthole, he would measure Progress's distance and report it through a headset to Tsibliyev. If everything went well, Foale would be the first to feel the slight bump as the eight-ton, 23-ft. ship barely kissed the far larger...
...offset the higher expenditures, insurers are boosting the premiums for liability coverage on sport-utility vehicles and pickup trucks, the New York Times reported last week. Previously, policyholders would pay roughly the same premium for liability protection whether they owned an ordinary sedan or a two-ton pickup. Car owners buy liability coverage as protection against loss claims from someone else as a result of an accident. Farmers Insurance Group, the nation's third largest insurer, has already lifted premiums as much as 10% in Pennsylvania, and it may eventually seek hikes in all of the 30 states it covers...
...poor in Freeport, Ill., earned a place at Princeton and worked as a cable-industry lobbyist. He founded BET in 1980 with $15,000 in borrowed money, convinced he could mine gold from ore that others had found less rich. Marketers have known forever that black consumers have a ton of money at their disposal--$425 billion annually--and are quality conscious and extremely brand loyal. Johnson not only created a brand, BET (Black Entertainment Television), but in TV he also found an ideal way to reach the target audience...