Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gates is feeling a little cranky these days, he has good reason. The Justice Department just derailed his $2 billion bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken electronic-checkbook program, a deal that would have helped realize Microsoft's ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction in cyberspace. Another team of government lawyers is snooping around asking questions about Microsoft Network, the new online service he plans to launch in August. And an antitrust suit that has been hanging over his head for nearly five years -- and which he thought he had settled last summer...
...thing" is Windows 95, the latest update of a 10-year-old product that Microsoft is scheduled to release on Aug. 24. Windows 95 is Microsoft's bid to rid itself once and for all of its twin albatrosses: the legacy of dos (a primordial system that is starting to annoy even its most loyal users) and the competition from the Macintosh operating system (which continues to make Windows seem clunky by comparison...
PETE WILSON Bid for G.O.P. White House nomination held owing to bum throat...
...presidential primary state of New Hampshire, House Speaker Newt Gingrich hasstirred confusion aplenty on the campaign trailby telling Business Week that he might run for president if 7 million voters signed petitions urging him to do so. "Gingrich simply refuses to close the door on a presidential bid," saysMichael Duffy, TIME's national political correspondent. "If anything, he has opened it a bit with these comments." The immediate effect is tosteal thunder from the nine GOP candidatesalreadytrying to raise money and support. Gingrich maintained today that he was only half-serious in his comment to Business Week. Maybe...
...unforgivably knowing author of "The Romantic Movement" (Picador USA; 326 pages; $23) offers in his second novel a happy discourse on love and the nature of the words "I love you." De Botton comes to realize that these words can be a question, a prompt or an opening bid. "Light as a souffle, and no less addictive," saysTIME book critic Pico Iyer, "The Romantic Movement is that happiest of artifacts, a novel that smiles."Previous TIME Daily