Word: coreness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Worse still, from Microsoft's point of view, is that open-source projects "have acquired the depth and complexity traditionally associated with commercial projects such as Operating Systems and mission-critical servers"--that is, the core of Bill Gates' monopoly power. The memos, written by senior engineers, conclude that Microsoft must "decommoditize" (which is to say, lock up and crush) the open standards set through the open-source approach. "FUD tactics can not be used to combat...
...dollars in taxes since 1986. The rest comes from a variety of business tax credits, deductions and other incentives. During those same years, GE received contracts potentially worth half a billion dollars from the Department of Energy to conduct research in such areas as turbine systems for utilities--a core business of GE for decades. The Eximbank arranged more than $3 billion in financing or loan guarantees on some 40 GE projects in 20 countries. OPIC insured four GE projects worth $213 million...
...capricious cosmic joke and therefore nothing to get puffed up about. "I've become the kind of woman I've always hated," Robin says wonderingly at the end of her journey, "but I'm happier." There's a moral buried inside that irony. Or maybe it's the nasty core truth of our times. Whatever it is, Celebrity is the first fully serious (and seriously funny) movie about the issue that touches, and ultimately subsumes, everything we feel about fame and the discontents it breeds...
Springsteen turns out to be particularly interested in rap. "That desire to be heard, to have a voice that can be heard, that seems to be at the core of a lot of the music that I wrote," says Springsteen, who recently published Songs (Avon; $50), a compilation of his song lyrics. "More of those issues are dealt with in hip-hop today than in rock music. I don't know exactly why. Maybe those things are felt more in the hip-hop community, those kinds of immediate frustrations. Maybe that's the connection...
...needs. "Republicans on the Hill look on the Willey charges as a poison chalice," says TIME congressional correspondent Jay Branegan. "There's a strong desire to get impeachment over with quickly -? yet if they look like they're not considering it carefully, it hurts them with the core supporters...