Word: faces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judas' mind clenched down to the size of a pebble in his skull. But still he studied the new face for any further sign that this was Jesus, keeping his promise...
Judas lurched around, thinking the voice was too familiar. But the face was indescribably changed; Jesus' old fire and wit were gone. This man looked not remotely childish but utterly new, just born at sunrise, this April Sunday. So Judas said, "All the help I need--thanks anyhow--would be for you to leave...
...almost seemed to leave for a moment; his image faded on Judas' eyes. Then he was back and stronger still. His face had the calm that Judas had spent a whole life hunting. The man nudged Judas lightly aside, then reached up and tied the appropriate knot...
...strategy is putting pressure on the competition. Traditional venture-capital outfits like Kleiner Perkins and powerful newcomers such as David Weatherell's CMGI have been assembling their own Internet conglomerates. Now they may have to do battle with Softbank. "These keiretsu are going to face off like football teams," says Howard Anderson, founder of consultants the Yankee Group. Yahoo competes with Lycos, which CMGI covets, and Kleiner Perkins' WebGrocer will be up against Softbank's Webvan, another online supermarket based in California...
With his walrus mustache, twinkling eyes and charismatic way with words, Bove, 46, seems like a French reincarnation of Poland's Lech Walesa, the plucky union leader who helped topple communism. Bove has become a popular symbol of the fear and loathing many Europeans feel in the face of American-dominated globalization that threatens their culture and national identity...