Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...basic principles of antitrust policy. Klein held his ground, amazed at Gates? lack of sophistication in realizing to what extent the DOJ?s action might go beyond Windows 98. The two-hour session produced a stalemate. Gates, said insiders, was ?intelligent, forceful and, above all, passionate,? but regulators were deaf to his entreaties. As an insider put it, ?Windows 98 is part?but only part?of the DOJ?s concern. It is only a chapter in a much bigger book...
...been a working principle. Early in the century one of them wrote that unless they ignored presidential confidences that they saw or heard on the job, the Commander in Chief would never let them close enough to provide protection, and so a Secret Service agent, he wrote, must be "deaf, dumb and blind...
...after the boy's mother, who has identified herself as "Jennifer," informed police that Stewart told her not to bother asking for child support because the boy wouldn't live very long. "Jennifer" said she now believes that will come true, even though her son, who has become virtually deaf, has responded to a daily dose of about 10 medications...
Even Americans woozy from the stock market's climb will not be deaf to these arguments. They still cling to their traditional concept of Social Security as a safety net, not an alternative to Merrill Lynch. More than two-thirds of those surveyed in the TIME/CNN poll said they regard Social Security primarily as a benefit program designed to assure the elderly a minimum income during retirement. And that does not take into account that a third of Social Security beneficiaries are not retirees but widows and widowers, children who have lost a parent, and the disabled...
Regardless of whether CODA is successful in its attempt to obtain a deaf studies professor, several students said last night's even was a success, increasing their understanding...