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...Wall Street Journal headlined "Welcome, IBM. Seriously." Shortly afterward, he flew a small entourage to Redmond, Wash., to tell Microsoft about the Mac and persuade the programmers to write for it. Bill Gates didn't need much prodding. He agreed to produce the software--and then promptly launched a copycat project that would become Microsoft Windows...
...show offered plenty of rivals for today's most popular information appliance--3Com's Palm III (previously called the PalmPilot), a $350 handheld digital organizer for storing appointments and addresses, jotting down quick memos and sending e-mail messages. Casio, Everex, Philips and Uniden all showed off their copycat devices running the Windows CE operating system...
...couple of years ago, everything was girls, girls, girls," says Times Books editor Rapoport. She is referring, of course, to the phenomenal success of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine) by Mary Pipher and the many copycat books that followed. Pipher, a clinical psychologist in Lincoln, Neb., argues that many girls lose themselves in adolescence, just as Ophelia, the tragic figure in Shakespeare's Hamlet, did. Popularizing the work of Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, Pipher urges the parents of adolescent girls to help their daughters avoid emotional traps like depression, eating disorders and suicide attempts. The book...
...Charles Koppelman formed CAK Universal Credit in partnership with Prudential Securities, and he says he'll close $100 million in entertainer loans--his first deal--by the end of August and that Prudential will bundle them into a bond issue some months later. Snipes Pullman: "Everyone is trying to copycat...
When Wurst showed up at that eighth-grade graduation dance, he wasn't acting as an adult. He was acting like a copycat, just coming out of that last stage of childish imitation when young people like to copy everything that people older and (supposedly) cooler do. The two Arkansas boys were just acting the way they have seen America treat women: If she doesn't do what you say, strike her down. Violence against women is frowned upon in this country, but it is not considered important enough for more than a slap on the wrist. Take Back...