Word: almost
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...broadest appeal to consumers. As users settle on a platform, developers build more applications for it, which attracts yet more users. "What for Microsoft is a positive feedback is for would-be competitors a vicious cycle," Jackson wrote. With more than 70,000 Windows programs out there, it's almost impossible for any upstart to come along and grab significant market share...
...consumer market. Windows' main claim to fame is its relative ease of use--at least compared to MS-DOS. Or raw Linux. Until the Linuxians create a system that's as easy to use as Windows--or better still, the Mac--Microsoft has nothing to worry about. Well, almost nothing...
Clinical trials are research studies on human patients to test the safety and effectiveness of new treatments. There are hundreds of clinical cancer trials under way, involving thousands of patients. What most people don't realize is that the scientists who conduct these studies need test subjects almost as badly as the subjects need treatment, and that lately the scientists have been running short of willing participants. At a conference on clinical trials held recently in Alexandria, Va., researchers trying to devise strategies for signing up more patients noted that one of the reasons there has been so much progress...
Anyone who thinks about the trouble between blacks and whites in America encounters a secondary division, almost as old. This is the line between what might be called the Externalists and the Internalists...
...platform for an impressive Broadway debut by film and TV star Woody Harrelson. Instead of the larger-than-life hamminess that Burt Lancaster brought to the role on film, Harrelson has a bantamweight's charm and easy physicality (at one point he does a handstand onstage). You can almost, but not quite, believe he'd fall for Lizzie, delicately played by Jayne Atkinson. Just as you can almost, but not quite, believe this well-made but sentimental play was worth reviving...