Word: dissimilarities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Apple was run by co-founder Steve Jobs from 1977 until '85, it was a self-consciously maverick firm that lived to be different (not entirely dissimilar from Sun Microsystems today). Its idiosyncrasies created a revolution. The benefit of its attitude started with the Apple II, which defined the fundamental elements of a personal computer: hard drive, monitor, key board. Then Apple invented Macintosh, and desktop publishing. The company was a premium maker of first-class personal computers. When Apple succeeded, it made lots of money but saw its market share shrink drastically. Eventually the shrinkage caught up with...
...murderer." That message has been disseminated to tens of thousands of Internet users via a home page that was established by his defense team on the World Wide Web. In addition to the facts of the case, the page presents, side by side, two quite dissimilar handwriting samples: one taken from a note that police say Davis wrote in 1979, the other recently penned by Davis. In response, more than 1,000 people have so far sent E-mail to Illinois Governor Jim Edgar demanding clemency for Davis...
...Crimson seemed down for the count, and manyB.U. and North-eastern fans headed for the exits.But as chapters of a book can be quite dissimilar,the second period was a much different story...
...Genetically engineered foods contain genetic material from dissimilar plants, animals, viruses and bacteria, or contain synthetically produced genetic material to confer certain characteristics desirable to the food producers," the letter said...
...another sense of diversity--I would argue a more urgent sense--we are hopelessly lacking. Though our bodies are dissimilar, our souls are of a kind. Even as we stand here with our infinitely variegated faiths, ethnicities and sexualities, we also stand here as a community overwhelmingly composed of only three basic constituencies: future lawyers, doctors and business executives...