Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increasingly lengthy list of bugs in the program. Gates, typically, is ready on both fronts with Microsoft?s new ?gentle? strategy: the firm plans to give away the update for free at microsoft.com starting Aug. 18, helping to squelch complaints about the new software. And Gates? lawyers will ask this week to have the federal suit thrown out of court, arguing that depositions of Netscape veeps have done nothing to show that Microsoft tried to force its smaller competitor out of the market. This may be a kinder, gentler Microsoft, but it?s still on the offensive...
Still, Zuccarini insisted that his club was not some beer-guzzling strip joint or touch club. His security staff does not hesitate to ask a drunk man to leave the club or to remind customers that the dancers will not fully unclothe unless they see the tips start flowing. The bigger the bills, the better...
...close celebrity cluster. "Everyone thinks it is like Melrose Place, that we all live in the same apartment complex and go to the same spots every night," says Hewitt, who will soon star as Audrey Hepburn in a TV mini-series. "That is so not the case. People ask me, 'What is Leo like?' Like I would know. Even at premieres, you go to the movie and the party, you feel uncomfortable, then you go home early and eat macaroni and cheese in your sweats...
...head in agreement; your host smiles and thinks you're paying attention. In Egypt, you shake your head in disagreement; your host frowns and wonders why you don't understand. In Mexico, don't call her senora, which can imply aging; call her senorita. And in Zimbabwe, don't ask, "Is it far?"; out of courtesy people will answer, "Not far." (Be specific and ask, "How long does it take by foot...
HARCOURT BRACE would seem to have a major p.r. headache on its hands. The co-author of one of its lead fall titles, Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, is PATRICIA SMITH, the Boston Globe columnist who was asked to resign in June after she was found to have fabricated four columns. Harcourt executive editor Jane Isay says the firm still plans to publish the book, which was co-authored with novelist Charles Johnson and is the companion to a PBS series. "She is a wonderful writer. Her prose is riveting," says Isay, who nonetheless concedes that Harcourt...