Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...level of secrecy. McGee spent four years at id Software, the phenomenally successful Texas-based game company that has done more than any other developer to simultaneously push the boundaries of game technology - with such groundbreaking titles as Doom and Quake - and the industry's tolerance for bloody, ultraviolent content. MORE...
Because the school has been off limits to all but official workers, the curious have had to be content with snapping pictures at the front entrance and taking in the makeshift memorial of flowers, teddy bears and keepsakes that for a time overflowed Robert F. Clement Park, adjacent to the school. Even Columbine's 1,978 students have been kept away from the complex as an army of construction workers rushed to repair damage, install security devices and make other changes that school officials hope will be comforting for parents and students...
...company hasn't been alone. All of the dot.coms in our so-called cohort, Internet financial-information services and content, saw their stocks similarly sliced and diced. (Indeed, I was doing some slicing myself. My hedge fund has been unloading dot.com stocks as if they were contaminated.) If we had a Dot.coms Anonymous, I don't think my story would be any worse than half a dozen other entrepreneurs...
...audience. A girl loses her virginity to her boyfriend--who turns into an evil vampire. Sex on TV is still plentiful. A study this year by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that 56% of 1,351 sampled shows, and two-thirds of prime-time ones, had sexual content. But when TV turns a critical eye on the subject, it's often anything but sexy...
Inheriting the family job at 14, when his father died, he wasn't content to dwell only in the spiritual world. His mother pushed him to finish school, and when the university said he could not wear priest's robes, she let him buy a forbidden pair of trousers. His education helped him understand threats to the Ganges, and since 1982 he has struggled to open the eyes of bureaucrats and the public. Supported in part by aid from the U.S. and Swedish governments, Mishra juggles his roles as priest and activist. As he takes a call from Washington inviting...