Word: assents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Justice Department's lawsuit against Microsoft may be trouble for Bill Gates, but it could help business for Gateway. In an industry first, and with Microsoft's grudging assent, the PC maker is offering new customers the Windows 98 operating system and a choice of either the Microsoft or Netscape browser. (To get that choice, customers must pick Gateway's Internet service over those of AOL and other providers.) Also, those paying for their PC in monthly installments starting at $50 can trade up to a faster model two years later...
...would always agree to that, but was never really sure of the nature of my assent, or, for that matter, of the nature of my ascent. For whenever I would mention the word "Harvard" in association with my name, the air of reverence I was being treated with would rise accordingly, and some-what disturbingly...
...Admissions Office has been seeking a more permanent home--currently examining a possible home in Hemenway Gymnasium across the Cambridge Common--ever since Radcliffe announced it would not assent to a long-term lease with...
...bare conference room in the Palace of Nations, waiters brought in trays of steaming coffee to help keep alert the four envoys and a lower-level representative from China. Aziz by then had Baghdad's assent to the terms in the Russian statement, Primakov told the group. Iraq would allow all the inspectors, including the Americans, to return with no restrictions on their movements. It was important that the ministers now accept the Russian document as a joint statement on what the West expected of Iraq, he argued...
Audience response to the forum was generally positive, with plentiful applause and nods of assent...