Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reasonable safeguards for a personal well-being that they otherwise wish to pursue without interference. As the pollsters keep discovering, they care about education, HMO reform and shoring up Social Security. They also want a Congress that operates effectively on those matters and a President who's a bit like a mayor, a ground-level problem solver, even...
...video also made a more subtle point: that Gates is just a bit loopy. The Gates in the video--shown to a packed courtroom over three large monitors--paused for 20 seconds or more while formulating some answers. When the going got tough, he rocked back and forth in his chair like a toy dog in a car window. He testily parsed fine distinctions (Microsoft's "deal" with Apple vs. their "relationship") and professed to be nonplussed by common Anglo-Saxon words ("I have no idea what you're talking about when you say 'ask.'"). At times the wiry, high...
...Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is a man in a rumpled corduroy jacket with his nose pressed eagerly against the double-glazed windows of fame. A failed novelist, he writes celebrity profiles for magazines and subsists emotionally on such crusts--a bit of gossip, a moment of false intimacy--as the famous discard as they pass...
...great managers today are switching companies more often. Buying a stock for its management has become a bit like picking a restaurant for its chef. You need to check in once in a while to make sure old Pierre is still there--and that he isn't suddenly trying to cook Chinese. Here are four questions to ask when reviewing the management menu...
Hartford, meanwhile, received a first round bye--a product of the NCAA tournament expansion from 32 teams to 48--and may feel a bit of rust against the match tough Crimson...