Word: consents
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Charging Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Janet Reno asks that the company be held in contempt and fined $1 Million a day (TIME Daily...
Claiming that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Attorney General Janet Reno stunned the software industry Monday afternoon by asking a federal court to hold the company in contempt for forcing PC makers to license it's browser, Internet Explorer, along with its desktop software, Windows '95. Reno also asked that Microsoft pay a fine of $1 million a day until the company changed its distribution practices. "Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly," Reno told reporters...
...settle for a confident (yet curiously error-riddled) press release on the company's website: "We are operating in a completely appropriate and lawful mannerare operating in a completely lawful manner," it quoted William H. Neukom, Microsoft's Senior Vice President for Law and Corporate Affairs, as saying. "The consent decree specifically explicitly states that allows Microsoft to may integrate new features into the operating system that it licenses to PC manufacturers without violating the decree...
...graver matters on his mind. From August to December last year, Sam Manzie, 15, had allegedly been involved in a sexual relationship with 43-year-old Stephen Simmons of Holbrook, N.Y., a convicted pederast whom Manzie had met over the Internet. Since late August, though, Manzie, with the consent of his parents, had been assisting New Jersey prosecutors in an effort to build a criminal case against Simmons for sexual abuse. Manzie kept up phone contact with Simmons so their conversations could be taped. Three weekends ago, however, the boy took a hammer to the recording device police had installed...
...that we received the announcement for the October 24th House Committee sponsored event, Debauchery. Since it was sent in the form of an addendum to W@W [Week at Winthrop, the house's weekly newsletter], we want to clarify that its appearance in that form does not imply our consent to the spirit or contents of the announcement. To the contrary. The fact is that we, in the wake of the MIT tragedy, have spent hours--in a monthly meeting of the Masters, in the Masters' docket committee on which Paul serves and last night in an extended meeting...