Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday the company kept silent amid a blizzard of news reports that its board had ousted chief executive officer Michael Spindler and chairman Mike Markkula. Their replacement was said to be Gilbert Amelio, an Apple director and chairman and CEO of chipmaker National Semiconductor. The speculation became a continuous buzz when it was learned that Amelio had abruptly quit National Semiconductor. But it was hours before Apple released a brief statement confirming Amelio's arrival and Spindler's departure, and noting that Markkula, an Apple cofounder, was returning to the post of vice chairman...
...decorated with slogans supporting either MS. PERON, inset, or MS. CICCONE, who appears, at left, in an exclusive, official portrait as Argentina's once and future, if unofficial, queen. Madonna, who has already recorded the score, plus one song written for the film, is sufficiently inured to the buzz to appear in public, albeit under guard. But even President Carlos Menem has weighed in: "I don't see Madonna in the role. I don't think Argentina's people, who see Evita as a true martyr, will tolerate it." But director Alan Parker is unperturbed. "There's an extreme minority...
...steady build-up of student confidence in and respect for what had been Harvard's most buffoonish comedy of ego and intrigue. Old memories--of offices being broken into, funds illegally transferred and blackmail documents melodramatically exposed at panel discussions--are starting to fade into the dim background buzz of history...
...APPLE? THAT WAS the loudest buzz question in Silicon Valley last week, as insiders tried to guess the outcome of talks over the possible merger of two icons of the digital revolution. Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems, two vastly different companies, were haggling over the buyout of Apple even as an Apple executive insisted that their company was "not for sale." But it was. Last Tuesday, Sun was said to be offering $33 a share, about the price at which Apple is trading on the stock market, or roughly $4 billion. By Thursday, Sun was reportedly offering $23 a share...
...unto him no matter what the stuffy old adults thought. So, were he around today, would he be ministering to disaffected youth in a mosh pit? Would his Sermon on the Mount be turned into a Street Corner Rap? Would MTV put The Lord's Prayer video in the Buzz...