Word: dampens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planned. Last week, three days after the government took Microsoft's side in court on an appeal related to the consent decree, the Justice Department filed suit to block the Microsoft-Intuit merger. The $2 billion deal, government antitrust lawyers argued, would reduce competition, raise software prices and dampen innovation...
Thierman did not seem to mind his predicament too much. Nor did a peppy Peter J. Kim '98, who said he was awake because "I got up late, and I'm not tired yet." Even the thought of his nine o'clock orgo class could not dampen his spunk...
Morgan also played through injuries this season, but they didn't dampen her spirit or caliber of play. When it was all over yesterday, Morgan was overcome with emotion, but in the long run, she has nothing to be sorry about...
...after the dollar sank to a post-World War II low against the Japanese yen, vowed action if needed to bolster the greenback. Economists said the two men are in a bind: allow the dollar to fall further, and potentially provoking inflation, or raise interest rates and dampen U.S. economic growth...
...beat Boston University, 5-4; Boston College, 9-0; Richmond, 5-1; and then George Washington, 5-3. It dropped its final fall match to a tough Virginia team, 5-0, but that could hardly dampen the team's irrepressible optimism...