Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When federal prosecutors asked John D. Rockefeller for financial data in the suit that broke up Standard Oil, his lawyer's response was brief and to the point: "I'll see you in hell first." Microsoft hasn't been that dismissive of its own high-profile antitrust suit, but it's come close. Vice chairman Steve Ballmer declared, "To heck with Janet Reno," last year. And earlier this month a supremely self-assured Bill Gates told a meeting of 2,000 Microsoft shareholders that "the facts simply don't support the government's claim...
Gasps went up when Updike, receiving a lifetime-achievement medal, said the word Wolfe. He had just pricked A Man in Full in the New Yorker, calling its author "a talented, inventive, philosophical-minded journalist, coming into old age," who goes for broke on a novel that is just "entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form." At the podium, a smiling Updike read Wolfe's vivid if catty 1964 account of Updike receiving his first National Book Award: "He squinted at the light through his owl-eyed eyeglasses, then he ducked his head and his great thatchy...
...October 20, two weeks after the Mallinckrodt spill, another spill forced complete evacuation of Harvard Medical School's Seely G. Mudd Building. A faulty refrigerator shelf broke, causing bottles to break and chemicals to mix. The seven people in the building at the time left uninjured...
Then all hell broke loose. Jones doubled her demand to $2 million; a previous set of lawyers rushed in with an $800,000 lien against her; her current lawyers in Dallas, who had run up more than $1.5 million in legal costs, announced after fighting with husband Steve Jones and McMillan that they would quit the case; and Clinton's lawyers backed away from the whole circus. Things were stalled until last week when the newest Jones attorney, Susan's husband William McMillan, approached Bennett and agreed to put in writing that Hirschfeld's offer was off the table...
...then a little something broke the Crimson...