Word: feud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...future of personal-computer software. Microsoft developed the now famous disk operating system for the IBM-PC -- called DOS -- and later created the operating software for the next generation of IBM personal computers, the Personal System/2. When PS/2 and its operating system, OS/2, failed to catch on, a feud erupted over how the two companies would upgrade the system. Although they publicly patched things up, the partnership was tattered. IBM developed its own version of OS/2, which has so far failed to capture the industry's imagination. Microsoft's competing version, dubbed New Technology, or NT, will debut this spring...
...empty sockets of The Kritios Boy. And far from rising above anxiety, classical Greek art pullulated with horrors: snakes, monsters, decapitated Gorgons, all designed to ward off the terrors of the spirit world. One sometimes wonders if ancient Greece, more lurid than white, so obsessed with blood feud and inexpungible guilt, wasn't closer to modern Bosnia than to the bright world of Winckelmann. But you cannot put that kind of "classicism" in a museum, or relate it to "democracy...
...LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE (HE DIED of cancer in 1984), comedian Andy Kaufman developed an inexplicable obsession with professional wrestling. First he satirized the macho sport by wrestling women, crowning himself the Intergender Champion. Then he launched a feud with Memphis, Tennessee, wrestler Jerry Lawler, and things began to get out of hand. He was seriously injured more than once, goaded the "hick" Memphis fans with increasing venom and began to worry even his closest friends. ANDY KAUFMAN: I'M FROM HOLLYWOOD (Shanachie Home Video), an extraordinary account of Kaufman's ring exploits, chronicles what was either the shrewdest...
...that finally led to compromise. After eight days of haggling with Russia's supreme legislature, Russia's first | democratically elected leader took the podium on Thursday and proceeded to heap buckets of scorn upon the Congress of People's Deputies, a legislature populated with Soviet holdovers. Their simmering feud had finally boiled over. He blasted the body for "blocking reform," for orchestrating a "creeping coup." He accused Deputies of defiling the Kremlin meeting hall with "the sick ambitions of failed politicians." Then he called for a referendum to end the political stalemate. "I am asking the citizens of Russia...
...feud elicited heated audience involvement and squeals of laughter as participants debated the credulity of the most popular Dunster nicknames, including "Where the good times come to die" and "Adams by the sea." The "families" also wrestled with the question of whether "Skincredibles" or "Oxfam Night" was the Dining Hall item that best described the typical Dunsterite's sex life...