Word: crushed
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...freely. But a week into the trial, the real battle seems to be between two warring views of Gates. Is he the brilliant innovator who has brought the wonders of the information age to millions of satisfied customers? Or is he the rapacious capitalist leveraging his software monopoly to crush competitors? How the courts view the world's richest man--his net worth is now upwards of $50 billion--more than what antitrust ideology they adopt will probably determine the outcome of what could be a landmark case...
Barksdale's testimony was intended to back up the government's claim that Microsoft engaged in a pattern of "predatory acts" involving many key technology players, including America Online and Compaq. Justice says Microsoft used improper coercion to get these companies to help it crush Netscape. In the case of America Online, the government says, Microsoft refused to put AOL's icon on the Windows desktop unless AOL abandoned Netscape in favor of Internet Explorer. With Compaq, the government says, Microsoft threatened to terminate the company's license for Windows after it dropped Explorer in favor of Navigator...
...mannered and bookish Harvard students usually are, but on top of these behemoths they become pilots of destruction. I glance behind me in apprehension, and find a bike-riding Harvardian screaming down the narrow Yard paths, no doubt late for his or her "Sex" section. They are willing to crush whatever measly pedestrian dares poke along their path...
...doubt that there are cases in which the police look the other way, prosecutors don't bring charges and juries don't convict. Take the case of Jonathan Schmitz, who killed a gay man who said during the taping of the Jenny Jones Show that he had a crush on Schmitz. Schmitz was convicted of second-degree murder. Was being the object of gay affection such understandable humiliation that the charges were ameliorated...
...recent conflict began last March when President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic deployed Serbian troops to crush ethnic Albanian rebels fighting for the Kosovo Liberation Army...