Word: extended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Accordingly, Dell has withstood a profit squeeze on PCs. Estimates are that last year it posted an operating profit of $268 on each PC it shipped, while Compaq earned only $64 a unit and IBM actually lost $127. Even so, Dell is not relying just on PCs to extend its proud record of being the only company among the FORTUNE 500 that has increased revenues and profits more than 40% in each of the past three years. It is, in fact, somewhat de-emphasizing PCs to put more of a manufacturing and marketing push on such higher-margin products...
...prevail in the end. "You can say all you want," Marshall told a black newspaper publisher not long after Brown was decided, "but those white crackers are going to get tired of having Negro lawyers beating them every day in court." In time Marshall would persuade the court to extend the Brown principles to public accommodations ranging from public housing to beaches...
...rooms. But Anne had an instrument of freedom in an autograph book she had received for her 13th birthday. She wrote in an early entry, "I hope that you will be a great support and comfort to me." She had no idea how widely that support and comfort would extend, though her awareness of the power in her hands seemed to grow as time passed. One year before her death from typhus in the Bergen-Belsen camp, she wrote, "I want to be useful or give pleasure to people around me who yet don't really know me. I want...
...very next week, at a Jan. 27 biannual policy meeting, the Owl announced a similar guest restriction policy. The initial announcement called the changes a trial for the month of February. But three weeks later, the club decided to extend its ban on non-members indefinitely...
...women won, 99-46, to extend their win 11-year win streak over Yale...