Word: atlas
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...late as 1991, Library of Congress surveys found that Atlas Shrugged was the second most influential book for Americans, second only to the Bible. So if objectivism is silly, why is it so appealing...
Microsoft Bookshelf This handy reference guide puts a dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, atlas, quotation book and Internet directory a mere mouse click away. ($54.95; Microsoft...
...only to look up "Gatun" in an atlas to verify the spelling (and to verify that it is actually a location on the Panama Canal), but also to find out whether the canal lock gate at Gatun is actually 75 feet high, and whether it is in fact swinging shut in the picture. Soon I was scanning through books about canal locks, searching through various technical reference manuals and finding absolutely nothing. A call to engineers in Panama was also no help. No, no, no, it's all wrong, they told me. The gate at Gatun is actually 77 feet...
Rand created and developed the philosophy in books such as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead...
...turning point in the Battle of the Browsers may come this summer with Microsoft's release of IE 3.0, which includes support for frames and Java. Not to be outdone, Netscape is testing Atlas, its "second-generation" browser...