Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHETHER MICROSOFT IS TOO POWERFUL AND RUTHLESS: Given the amount of mud people have thrown up on the wall to see if it sticks, I think it's pretty amazing that not a speck of dirt has ever stuck . . . There's no shortage of competition in the computer industry. You'll never have anybody in a very dominant position for very long because they have to prove themselves constantly. You can't just sit on a market position; the fact you have a 70%- to-80% share means nothing in the next round...
Suddenly, sniper bullets spit into the dirt along the top of the trench. Down below the ridge, plum orchards in spring bloom conceal the Muslim lines. Exploding artillery shells trigger small avalanches along the rain-loosened earth walls. A young Serb slides into the trench, out of breath from his dash across a meadow of buttercups pocked by mortar craters. He has a question to ask that is important enough to risk his life. "Why does the world want to destroy us?" he wants to know. "We are victims...
Ljuba Mikerevic, 34, walks from a bunker built of old cartridge boxes packed with dirt and covered with logs and sod in the middle of the Serb lines to his home every four days. It is about two miles down the steep hill past two military checkpoints, a dozen gutted homes and a file of soldiers walking in the other direction. Mikerevic is lean, with a dark mustache and hair that is turning prematurely gray. His rifle swings easily from his shoulder. At home his wife and two young girls, ages six and three, are waiting in the cramped apartment...
...created its dinosaurs inside out: a simplified skeleton, then skin covering, then coloration, then the fine tuning with wrinkles, scales, dirt. "You see skin moving over bones and over muscles," says ILM's Dennis Muren, who directed the project. "When the brachiosaurus walks, the weight of its chest makes it swing back and forth." Dippe believes the process is so adroit that, "if we had real dinosaurs, we'd probably still do it this way. Our animals don't get tired or hungry...
Both the FBI and the cultists' lawyers are making detailed preparations for a surrender. Koresh, accompanied by DeGuerin, would come out first and be whisked away, perhaps by helicopter. Others will walk up a dirt road about 100 yards, pass through metal detectors to make sure they are not carrying weapons, then board buses for a ride of several miles to a processing center already set up inside a cavernous airplane hangar on the grounds of Texas State Technical College. There they will be stripped, dressed in prison garb, photographed and sent to local jails...