Word: boot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a chuckle. Two hours later, after taking me on a hellish tour of "msconfig"--an apparently pointless Windows 98 diagnostic tool--he admitted he couldn't fix the machine. He said I'd need to reinstall Windows 98. When I told him I didn't have my Win98 boot disc (a floppy disc that helps kick-start your machine by circumventing the hard drive), he said I'd need to reinstall Windows 95, the operating system the machine shipped with, then upgrade to Windows 98. He took my $25 for this absurdly bad advice...
...only sort of language that [Yugoslav President Slobodan] Milosevic understands in a boot in the face," said Ante Skrabalo '99, originally from Croatia...
What's the appeal? On one level a tale of plangent melodrama: a group with three Jewish and three Gentile members trying to stand tall and cool under the Nazi boot. The Comedian Harmonists had some friends in high places, including Gauleiter Julius Streicher. At one concert a punk in the balcony shouted venom about the dirty Jews, but the Nazi brass in the front rows stood and cheered the group until the punk shut...
...foreman was a classmate at Jasper High School.) King's life took a bad turn after his junior year of high school, when he was arrested for burglary--along with Shawn Berry, one of the two men with him in the pickup last June. The two were sent to boot camp together. Upon release, however, King violated probation and was given an eight-year prison term in July...
...better off tapping a home-equity line of credit, where the interest rate is far lower and tax deductible to boot, or taking a loan from your 401(k) plan at work or from some reputable lender. You'd even be better off cutting a deal directly with the IRS. That's right. The IRS must offer you an installment loan on the taxes due if you meet certain criteria: you owe less than $10,000; have filed a tax return and paid tax in each of the previous five years; and agree to pay off the balance within three...