Word: catapults
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gates, 28, has helped catapult Microsoft to the forefront of the software industry, and his list of customers includes every major manufacturer of personal computers. When IBM wanted an operating system for its Personal Computer, it turned to Gates. When Apple needed software for its Macintosh, it gave Microsoft a test model to use in writing the programs. Gates helped with the design of Radio Shack's Model 100, the first truly portable computer. Microsoft produced the MSX systems software that will be used for a new series of Japanese computers. Thanks to that business (and more), Gates...
However, a new $1 million track was not enough to catapult the men's team past the New England indoor champion Huskies, who tallied 86 points to the Crimson...
...sinister plot by retired but fanatical and influential generals to take over the world. They've got money, brains and connections everywhere. And they've been shipping guns to terrorist groups all over the world, and moreover they are planning a series of assassinations and uprisings which will soon catapult the military into power. Converse is cynical, after all he's got his cozy lawyer's world and it does sound like a paranoid's fantasy, but then the friend drops a name--General George Marcus Delavane (read mad antagonist). This man Converse hates--Delavane sent him on a suicide...
Instead it took the efforts of one of American greatest writers--Eudora Welty--to catapult a Harvard University Press publication to the New York Times bestseller list...
First on this morning's agenda for the acquamen is the 1650-yd, freestyle, an event which, if all goes well, should catapult the squad back into first place, at least temporarily. Roberts and sophomore Tim Ford are ranked first and second, respectively...