Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...season to be sorry. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and other thriving German companies are now facing class-action suits from the thousands of slave laborers forced to work in their factories during the Nazi era, while Swiss banks that once swallowed Jewish assets have offered up $1 billion to Holocaust survivors. Former Bosnian leaders are facing international tribunals for crimes against humanity. And Jiang Zemin, his own human rights violations notwithstanding, has embarked this week on his first state visit to Japan, demanding written apologies from the Japanese government for its brutality in China during the 1930s and '40s-an apology...
...easiest and simplest remedy for high textbook costs is for students to buy used books, but that requires action by professors and the Coop...
...virus finds a way to evade the action of the drugs that we come up with to fight it," said David D. Ho, a Harvard Overseer who won Time Magazine's Man of the Year Award in 1996 for AIDS research...
...What we wanted to do was get a snapshot in aparticular stage of the reaction cycle," Harrisonsaid. "In other words, trap the enzyme in action...
...other words, Java could cause Microsoft to end up looking a lot like IBM in the '80s--beleaguered by years of antitrust action but usurped only when a new revolution in computing took hold. The rise of the personal computer cost Big Blue its overwhelming dominance. Will Java do the same to Big Bill? The jury's still out on that one, although the release of Java 1.2 this week might help silence some critics of Java software. "We've never had this level of confidence in code," says Sick. "It's not where it needs...