Word: dumbness
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...four decades, the mainframe was the queen bee of office computing. The gigantic machines often served as host for an army of white-collar workers, who were linked together in a single network of as many as 10,000 "dumb" ( desktop terminals. The market for these behemoths regularly grew 15% a year, but sales have slowed to 4% since 1990 as customers have turned to less expensive but powerful personal computers and linked workstations. Many manufacturers of large systems have already fallen victim to this irreversible change. In August, Wang Laboratories was forced to file for bankruptcy. Unisys...
...Steppenwolf, part of the appeal is poking fun at the rival Goodman Theater's version of A Christmas Carol. At BoarsHead in Lansing, Michigan, Inspecting Carol plays in repertory with the target of its satire. Says Sullivan: "I guess it's becoming a tradition itself. I'm so dumb I never thought of it as a Christmas show -- so we're committed to touring it in Washington and Ohio next May and June...
...Major canceled a meeting with Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, just before the Edinburgh summit. Says London University constitutional expert Peter Hennessy: "Royal issues still override all other issues." Anthony Holden, a biographer of Prince Charles, remarks of the announcement, "It just may be that Major is dumb enough to think that the Edinburgh conference would bury it, and the royal family is dumb enough to think that Princess Anne's marriage would obscure...
There are other, sexier ways to get to the top of the mountain. The helicopter will get you to unpopulated summits where the perfect run--or avalanche--awaits. When you tell your friends about helicopter skiing, they will be impressed with how rich, or how dumb...
...Thomes's cruel oppressor, Blukoff (Billy Hulkower) who has to utter some of Aron's most banal lines: "Are you the dumbest woman in the world? Do you like being hurt? Sure you do...that's how dumb...