Word: drives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into both PCs. "This was definitely something we were looking for," he says of the new system. "We wanted to be able to share Internet access, transfer documents without having to save them first on floppies, and save large files from one machine to the zip drive we had connected to the other machine. We could do all that using this system." The best thing about it: no circuit boards to install inside...
...typical McKinsey man. He set up a sham pro-dump grassroots organization. His duties, according to San Bernardino County grand jury indictments and his testimony, included swiping confidential data, sabotaging potential deals and spreading rumors that linked Cadiz to illegal dumping and drug trafficking--all in an attempt to drive down its stock price and cripple its lobbying efforts. Last fall Lauricella was sentenced to six years in prison for his consulting efforts. Waste Management and four of its executives, who claim that Lauricella was a renegade acting on his own, have pleaded not guilty to various charges, including stock...
...Leadville, Colo., 18 months ago, eager to trade urban pressures for the serenity of this historic mining town of 3,421. But Leadville's telephone system is quaint too, and won't let his computer modem send the digital images that are his livelihood. This regularly forces Middleton to drive two hours to Denver to deliver electronic designs for brochures and ads. "I can't compete," he laments, again facing the prospect of leaving Leadville for the city. "The phone line is too small...
...about to land. My own experience was confined to a single game, the first I ever saw, when DiMaggio, suffering from a bone spur, was on his last legs. The mother of a boy in our neighborhood took a bunch of us to the Stadium. DiMaggio hit a drive into the upper deck in right. "You'll never forget that," said my friend's mother...
...drive home, I realized that I do want to live my life through someone else. I want to share someone else's experiences and put her ahead of me. I wasn't sure I wanted that more than a mansion, monkeys and naked twins, but it seems more attainable. Plus, Hef also said, looking out over the house on his property where his ex-wife and kids live, "The divorce wasn't my choice. Maybe it's not over. It's not over until the fat lady sings--and we don't allow fat ladies on the premises...