embody Just as the 1889 Paris Exposition gave rise to the Eiffel Towel, this (Internet) world's fair will leave behind a structure that embodies its vision of the future: a transoceanic railroad of high-speed fiber-optic links.

emulate Warner and Paramount, the two newest entrants in the network derby, see Fox not as a nemesis but as a network to emulate.

engineer Gerstner and Thoman, however, have engineered a corporate future that takes more from their corporate customers' body language than their own.

enlist The U.S. Should be hard-nosed on nuclear proliferation and intellectual-property rights, and may find it advantageous to enlist friends and allies support in that endeavor instead of going it alone.

envision Andreessen, Barksdale and Clark envision a future Netscape product that will assume many of the computer's operating-system functions, browsing local files as seamlessly as it browses today's Web.

eradicate Several days later, however, Clinton reversed himself again, saying it was more important to safeguard vital social programs than to eradicate the deficit in the relatively near future.

erupt Then a controversy erupted over an unnamed woman's decision to abort one of two healthy fetuses because she felt unable to care for twins.

escalate His Zucca line does well at home, but the escalating yen has kept it out of the export market.

escort At some Spanish resorts tourists who flouted the law would be sternly escorted back to their hotels by the Civil Guard.

evaluate We must investigate, evaluate and validate this discovery, and it is certain to create lively scientific controversy.