Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is wonderful news -- at least the company is moving in the proper direction-and if it's true, maybe I'll start using the IBM clone that sits on my desk, stupid as a lawn jockey. But this isn't about me. This is about what's good for the entire digital world. And what's good for the digital world has nothing to do with smart technology versus stupid technology. It has to do with who's biggest and most likely to put all the pieces together. More important, it has to do with someone finally being responsible...
President Clinton launched his own budget salvo when his Administration announced he would veto the first major set of G.O.P. spending cuts that both houses of Congress are expected to send to his desk: $16.4 billion worth of recisions from the current budget. Proposing a set of alternative cuts, the President said the G.O.P. package was unacceptable because it would slash education, environmental and crime-prevention programs at the same time that it spares road- and courthouse-construction projects...
...Hong Kim, 45, assistant editor, Political Desk II, The Dong-A Ilbo, Seoul, Korea. He will focus on the Korean Peninsula's reunification process, the diplomatic issues surrounding improved U.S. North Korea relations; and the new international order and regional stability in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly after reunification...
...Wojciech Mazowiecki, 38, business desk editor and news/managing editor, Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, Poland. Mazowiecki intends to explore issues surrounding freedom of expression, the right to privacy and the right to know...
...brand--defines the type of computer on your desk, although some brand-names are strongly linked to a microprocessor--for example, Macintosh is linked to both Motorola's 68000 and the PowerPC chip. When the computer store salesperson says that a computer conforms to the IBM PC standard or is Windows compatible, he or she is really referring to the computer's microprocessor...