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When did you last make it through a day without wanting to choke one of the following: a cabbie, a telemarketer, the idiot driver in the next lane, the repairman who showed up three hours late, the people who control Internet access, all airline executives, a meter maid, some insipid bureaucrat, one of Larry King's guests or King himself...
...sources has persuaded them that leader KIM JONG IL is pushing the construction of a new reactor--underground to confound U.S. spy satellites--and trying to design usable atom bombs, possibly including missile warheads. Other analysts disagree; some Clinton Administration officials think hard-liners are leaking these reports to choke off congressional support for oil shipments to North Korea, which the U.S. pledged to fund in 1994 as part of a deal that shut down Pyongyang's known nuclear program. Even if the bad news is true, the new reactor is not expected to generate more bombmaking material for several...
Just one week later, bullets flew through acrowded Harvard Square as an armored car drivertried to choke an attempted heist. The onlyvictims of his gunfire were two of the assailants.But the March 2 shootout made it an eventfulafternoon for passerby...
...deadline for giving its new operating system, Windows 98, to PC manufacturers. DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein believed that the ways Microsoft uses its Windows monopoly to dominate other markets violate antitrust law, and that the company had to be reined in lest it gain a choke hold on the Internet. Gates felt otherwise, and had long since made it clear that he would rather fight than switch business models...
...browser is a critical platform technology. It is the means of access to the Internet, and everybody understands that having a choke hold on the Internet can be critical. Second, the principles at issue in this case--the exclusionary contracts, the predatory practices, the use of the desktop to force Microsoft's products on other people--will be critical as we go forward. Last, we do have ongoing investigations into other issues...