Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lead in personal computers has evaporated. Its supremacy in computer chips is a mere memory. In software, upstart companies that didn't exist a little more than a decade ago are running rings around the 78-year-old behemoth. And even worse, IBM has been bogged down by endless rounds of painful restructurings and cutbacks. "IBM is no longer the monolithic monster that strikes fear in the hearts of competitors," says Ulric Weil, a leading computer consultant. "It has proved to be quite mortal after...
...reductions alone, however, will not be enough to restore IBM's competitive edge. Distracted by endless rounds of cutbacks, the company lost sight of the ball. IBM fumbled in market after market: it fell behind in computer-chip technology, and it engaged in a self-destructive battle with software powerhouse Microsoft over the direction of desktop-computer programs. Even worse, IBM began losing money and market share in two of its vital markets: mainframes and personal computers. Here IBM is faced with a double quandary: it remains the world leader in the market for mainframes, but the large systems...
...about to learn it; the process of apprehending reality, of learning to live in the world, may be ongoing, like all those journeys on trains and on boats and through forests and out of town, yet it may be neither lonely nor in any bad sense endless. Or it might not be; the childlikeness may be futile...
Part of it is simply a natural fascination with the new. A year ago, about the only people in Europe who had ever heard of Bill Clinton were former Oxford classmates. In contrast to the parliamentary democracies and their endless reshuffling of shopworn faces, America stands unique in its willingness to entrust power to outsiders. Hillary Clinton adds an unexpected twist -- a woman who has earned her place among the shapers of policy through merit as well as marriage. For Europeans, the choice seems clear: Would you rather read about the Clintons or the squabble over agricultural subsidies...
...death, turned out to be crammed with the output of a lifetime's obsession with innocence and violence, including a 15,000-page illustrated saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, a sort of madman's Iliad of endless carnage between adults and moppets. No "mainstream" artist has so far based anything in Darger, which is just as well; in today's America, he would be arraigned for child abuse faster than you could say Lewis Carroll...