Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...content with his achievements to date, Bill Gates seems to want another title on his resume: Pioneer of the Web browser. In an interview with the Seattle Times, printed Sunday, the Microsoft CEO announces that he came up with the idea on an April 5, 1994 executive retreat: "I said, 'Hey, we're going to get (the browser) integrated with the operating system,' " Gates claims. Which, if true, would be extraordinarily convenient. It would prove that Microsoft Explorer and Windows were always intended to be one product, contrary to the Justice Department's claims. And it would predate the establishment...
After the performance, the audience, actors and panelists--who included Barbara E. Johnson, Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Lawrence H. Tribe '62, Tyler professor of constitutional law--discussed the political content of Smith's latest work...
...something was still missing. I moved back into Winthrop House that September content but empty, feeling as if I had learned everything about everything--except myself...
...most of them disagreed with the content, which basically meant that they saw nothing wrong with calling certain people "orientals" even though one girl had written about how much it offended her and even though plenty of more sophisticated literature had been written criticizing that term...
...world. If there is to be a culture clash between Brown and Galotti--both used to the bottomless largesse and stylish cool of Conde Nast--and the more profane, tightfisted world of Miramax, it was not yet apparent. Indeed, as words and phrases like "synergy," "21st century" and "content is king" flew about, all three principals seemed as energized by one another as by the prospects for their partnership. Imagine the giddy, self-important friendships of high school; then imagine a high school in which the upperclassmen are Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, and you will begin...