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...settle in for a long wait, and watch the real punishment continue: the drib-and-drab sapping of a company that's been sweating buckets for two years under the hot lights of both Washington and Wall Street, and which now has to gear up for years more of the same. "Just because things are going to get harder for the government doesn't mean they get any easier for Microsoft," says Cohen. "This process itself is inflicting significant damage." Bill Gates was the prime beneficiary of the legal paralysis that hobbled IBM in the '80s - he knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judge Says Break It Up. Don't Hold Your Breath | 6/7/2000 | See Source »

Director Michael Kahn puts the sig nature of his determined intent on the play from the outset. An improvisatory prologue serves as a metaphor for the work. In sweatshirts, football jerseys and dungarees, members of the cast drib ble a basketball, wrestle, somersault and shadowbox. Someone pumps back and forth on a child's swing. The seat of that swing will later serve as Harry of Monmouth's throne. The rising intensity of sticks beaten rapidly together, a rhythmic tapestry of violence, suggests a neighborhood gang rumble. One knows in one's slightly chilled bones that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Tapestry of Violence | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...better to take it in one go rather than attack three or four times. You lose fewer men that way." Thus, last week, International Monetary Fund Director Per Jacobsson explained the fund's $1.3 billion loan to Britain to prop the Suez-battered pound. Instead of help in drib lets, Britain asked for and got the largest loan permissible under the fund's rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Support for Britain | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Mitch has a wide range of twirling ability ready for the game. His choice will probably rest on Dick Walsh, who tamed the Bruin here Wednesday and may see service in the Cambridge game with Yale, Drib Braggiotti, or Tom Bilodeau, slugging first baseman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINCOLN IS PICKED TO PITCH AGAINST ELI THIS TUESDAY | 6/14/1935 | See Source »

Coach Fred Mitchell was uncertain last night as to his starting pitcher, both Drib Braggiotti and Tom Bilodeau having been named for the post. In the event that Bilodeau pitches, Prouty will play first and Dick Fletcher will occupy center field. Should Braggiotti pitch, Bilodeau will held down the initial sack, with Dick Prouty in center field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON MEETS LIONS TODAY IN LEAGUE GAME | 5/15/1935 | See Source »

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