Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even IBM could withstand the seismic shifts that rocked the industry in the early 1990s. As personal computers increased in power, many customers began moving their data-processing chores to smaller, desktop systems. The shock waves bent many "big iron" manufacturers out of shape, including Prime Computer and Control Data Corp., which stopped making mainframes after heavy losses. Many companies like Wang Laboratories and Unisys have largely switched from hardware to software. The biggest fallen giant is Digital Equipment Corp., which last week reported a larger than expected quarterly loss of $66 million. Once the No. 2 computer maker after...
Cummins has brought a conservative bent to the race to fill the seat of Ray Thornton, who's leaving for the state Supreme Court. Denouncing Vic Snyder's attempts to abolish the state's anti-sodomy law, Cummins praises the recently passed Defense of Marriage Act and expresses outrage that Snyder may have gays campaigning for him. Cummins once said he and Snyder weren't far apart on issues like Medicare, the environment and Social Security, but later declared he knows of no race "with a bigger difference between a liberal and a conservative...
...males with an aggressive bent, such a powerful simian sisterhood spells trouble. If a sexually mature bonobo male shows a female unwanted attention, she has merely to sound a distress call to bring an avenging group of females quickly to the scene. Males that misbehave in a nonsexual setting--say, at a feeding site, where they may try to hoard a cache of fruit and prevent other troop members from approaching--are similarly intimidated or chased off. Even males that reserve their aggression solely for one another find their behavior utterly unrewarded. The whole purpose of such mano a mano...
...Dole is so bent on exposing what he calls Clinton's "Me, too" practice of snatching his ideas that his campaign has been releasing a "Commander in Thief Watch." (It asks, "If you have no ideas of your own, why not steal someone else's?") But it seems that the plainspoken Kansan is not above a little political plagiarism himself...
...great find is Hell-Bent for Election, a 13-minute cartoon sponsored by the United Auto Workers to promote Franklin Roosevelt's 1944 re-re-re-election. Joe, a burly blond workingman, must assure that the Win the War Special (a high-speed train with F.D.R.'s smiling profile on the engine) gets to Washington ahead of the G.O.P.'s 1929 Defeatist Limited. Directed by the immortal Chuck Jones, with music by Earl Robinson and E.Y. Harburg, Hell-Bent for Election is visually imaginative and giddily unfair (for a moment the Republican villain metamorphoses into Hitler). It anchors a smart...