Word: barbe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success with Apple, both Steves developed and sold ``blue boxes,'' outlaw devices for making free telephone calls. Their contemporary and early collaborator, Lee Felsenstein, who designed the first portable computer, known as the Osborne 1, was a New Left radical who wrote for the renowned underground paper the Berkeley Barb...
...into his presidency. "Until a few weeks ago, (Democrats) were saying we didn?t even need a tax cut," Thompson said, after enumerating similarities with his Party?s 10-point "Contract with America." He told November supporters: "Your vote got the president?s attention." Thompson offered one more parting barb at Clinton?s new concoction: "We must do more than just reshuffle a few agencies and take money from one place to fund something else...
...Army's 10th Mountain Division. Under their watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved for junta leader Lieut. General Raoul Cedras. "Bye lakou blanche!" he declared. Rough translation: "Hit the road...
...sheer convenience of mutual funds makes them attractive to almost anyone. "If you have $100,000 to invest, it's not easy to track it closely every day," says Barb Wiener, a homemaker in Irvine, California, who uses a computer to manage her family's finances. "You choose a couple of mutual funds, and you only have to look two or three places to keep track of how well you're doing." All told, 1 in 4 Americans owns mutual funds directly or through group plans; half the families have incomes of less than $50,000, making funds the primary...
...morning of May 15, the Weaver girls, one by one, arrived at Sue's house. Barb relayed a last-ditch message from her husband: "Tell her I said to cut the s--- out and forget about this." Sue replied, "No way." And then she said, "I'm ready." Dan rolled her back to the bedroom, and the rest heard her sobbing and telling him how much she loved him. At around 9:45, everyone else filed...