Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fast turn to spray the boy with snow while wiping away tears. Last Friday, at the reception following the memorial service, it was Kennedy again who helped lift the spirits of those around him. He told stories and jokes, and found his voice to sing the hymn Just a Closer Walk with Thee...
...initiatives: QuickTime TV, an ambitious soup-to-nuts solution for Web video, and Sherlock 2, the upgrade to Apple's zippy search engine. Even at 12%, Macintosh remains a minority, and therefore vulnerable, platform, but that computer for Everyman that Jobs has been reaching for seems closer to his grasp than it has been for a very long time...
When whistles began coming closer to our tent, as did the dull growl of angry people, we began to gather our few remaining personal belongings and waited by the door, foiling one man who attempted to relieve himself on our walls. It was two of our previous customers who encouraged us to leave...
...maker's mark riveted to the front, the ancient Teletype machine looks ready to do battle once again after little more than a nap, spitting out headlines to chain-smoking reporters, getting even the most hard-boiled excited as it prints out "Flash...!" Anyone who stops to look closer at the immovable museum piece will see another quaint reminder of a time gone by in the newspaper business: the Teletype is stamped United Press International...
...controversy over Taiwan has actually managed to bring China and the U.S. closer together again by giving them something to agree on," says TIME correspondent Barry Hillenbrand. "It gave Washington an opportunity to show Beijing that the U.S. is not out to get them." That?s bad news for President Lee, of course, who had hoped to use the post-Kosovo rift to drive a wedge between Washington and Beijing. But that appears to have been a miscalculation. "The U.S. is committed to defending Taiwan from any attack," says Hillenbrand, "but the last thing it wants...