Word: ain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Story has it that a Washington taxi driver once told an inquiring passenger that the motto on the National Archives Building, WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE, really means "You ain't seen nothin' yet." In the case of the Internet and American business, the motto could be changed to WHAT IS PRESENT IS PROLOGUE--but it would translate the same...
...risks, we must experiment with new policies and new institutional structures, make provisional decisions about where we should be headed and then experiment some more. The bright side, says Romer, is that it's doable: "We control this process." Both present and past may be prologue, and indeed we ain't seen nothin' yet, but the story line after the prologue will be determined not by the inexorable commands of a technological god, but by plain old humans...
...keep pressing their case and try to mitigate what will certainly be an unfavorable outcome." Both sides wrapped up with a quick recap of what the trial-watching world has heard oh-so-many times before. The government says Microsoft is a monopoly; Microsoft says it ain?t and in fact is under constant siege from an ever-evolving industry that has been out to topple it long before the feds ever got the idea. Taylor isn?t buying the Bill Gates line ? continually and spectacularly refuted by the emperor?s own private comments ? and he?s certain Jackson...
...been in jail for years? Though good guys Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter backed the clemency, was it just a human-rights issue? Or was it political husbandry (and a bad job of it, too) for Hillary?s New York Senate run? Republicans want to know. Clinton ain?t telling. The White House braved the ghosts of Nixon one more time Thursday and invoked executive privilege, waving away congressional subpoenas for documents and witnesses from the likes of Vince Foster sleuth Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee. "The president has a moral obligation...
...soft spot for Trent Dilfer. After last week?s debacle against the G-Men, his job?s on the line again, and the Eagles are ready for a letdown after almost hanging on against Arizona last week. If it?s over 7, L.I. balks. But it ain...