Word: brushing
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Whether you're a fan of his work or consider him a little too gauche, you can't deny that Bill Gates likes to use broad brush strokes. Business @ the Speed of Thought is full of them: How he turned Microsoft around like a supertanker on a dime and pointed it toward the Internet in late 1995. How a plague of paper records at his Redmond, Wash., headquarters was all but eradicated under his guidance. And so on. But the boldest, broadest stroke of all is this: at a time when the Justice Department appears likely to pop the software...
...flow of information--it's the one thing that holds our vision of this complex character together. And if it doesn't always work out in reality as Gates the author imagines it will--if Gates the defendant doesn't much resemble the portrait he painted in those bold brush strokes--that's hardly surprising. Few of us ever...
...SCENE, Jan. 25]. You said Smith, who bought the farm at auction, had bulldozed the grave of a Barker family member. Smith had never been advised that there was a grave on the premises. In the process of clearing the land, workmen came upon a small gravesite hidden by brush and overgrowth. Upon finding the grave, Smith stopped work and began to clear and preserve the site. He intends to restore it to proper condition, fence it in and record it in public records, so the cemetery will be preserved in perpetuity. JAMES E. CROSS JR. Royster, Cross, Currin & Winfrey...
That won't be the couple's first brush with fame. Earlier this month West was on Oprah. That appearance sent West's awkwardly written tome into the Top 10 on Amazon.com's best-seller list. For those who doubt his story, West says, "I understand why people would be skeptical. I think it's because everyone knows you can't have more than one person living in a body." Well, exactly...
...powerful than anyone else," says Dowell. Don't expect any bold new directions from Clinton's speech. Aides have stressed that the President will primarily restate the case for U.S. involvement in distant conflicts. The world will have to wait for a mission statement that goes beyond putting out brush fires...