Word: chickening
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This summer, Microsoft played chicken with the Justice Department when it announced plans to incorporate a link between its proprietary network system and the much-touted (and honestly, inferior-to-Macintosh) Windows 95. This link took the form of a ubiquitous icon on the desktop, which would encourage users of Windows 95 to gain immediate and easy access to the Microsoft Network (MSN). Since MSN was new to the internet provider market, it would be at a decided advantage in gaining new subscribers. More than 80 percent of the world's computers run Microsoft Windows and almost all of them...
Hook me up with the best connection, pot, chicken and challah, names...
...unofficial hearings on the issue, which they will have to hold outside the Capital, because Republicans won't give them any space. Clinton is threatening to veto the budget proposal which contains the cuts, and Republicans won't pass anything but their proposal. The result of this game of chicken could be a shut-down of the federal government, if no accord is reached by the beginning of the fiscal year on October 1. That's the power of the AARP...
...John Turturro) cannot offer him much consolation. In the best of times, Sid is a tense and cranky figure, obsessively working on impractical inventions. In these, the worst of times, he is mostly preoccupied with cursing God, fate and Selma's doctors. The kid badly needs a dose of chicken soup and diversion...
...chart "Nowhere to go but Down?," which ranked currently traded stocks in terms of their first-day trading gains [CHRONICLES, Sept. 4], did not consistently reflect Boston Chicken's 2-for-1 stock split. The adjusted IPO price and first-day close price should have been $10 and $24.25, respectively. Thus Boston Chicken was not among highflyers whose recent stock price was below it's first-day closing price...