No wonder, then, that Microsoft's Bill Gates was in Shenzhen earlier this year unveiling plans to bring WebTV, the leading U . S . provider of TV-based Net access, to the mainland by using a Chinese version of the Windows CE operating system in set-top boxes.
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In Japanese shore-based net whaling, right whales were the prime target, and the whale fisheries were devastating to the stocks and the effect of the industries were more notable on the whale populations than the later American whaling, resulting not only in financial solvencies of many whaling groups but also in disputes between feudal domains in western Japan that required the shogunate itself to settle.
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"If they're not credible, we don't sign them; that's where we draw the line, " said Heckman, who used to publish a tabloid fan paper called Sports Washington that covered Northwest college football before his career plummeted and he started the Seattle-based Net site that relaunched in August with more than 425 unofficial team-sports-site links and could increase to 1, 000 as it adds more pro sports teams.
