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...hardly constitutes proof of illegal behavior. "I don't think there's any question that the suit is a negotiating ploy," says Mercury Research analyst Mike Feibus. The current industry wisdom is that Digital's aim is to gain an out-of-court settlement that would give it a foothold in Intel's fortunes--either a cross-licensing agreement granting access to Intel innovations for Digital products or a role in the development of Intel's new 64-bit chip, code-named Merced and expected in 1999. "This is a serious issue," Digital's chief technology officer Bill Strecker insisted...
...reason to move to Nevada: silver. Miners came in the mid-1800s, and visions of a different kind of silver drew even more speculators when casinos began to open in the 1960s. Nevada is traditionally Democratic, but an influx of newcomers in the 1980s has given Republicans a foothold here. But however inhospitable the Sagebrush State may be to farmers (and moderates), Democrats see the Second District's open seat as fertile ground...
...antilymphocyte globulin was the choice in the 1960s. In the '80s, cyclosporine proved even more effective. It was assumed that these drugs worked simply by disarming the body's built-in commandos--the human leukocyte antigens (HLAS) and T cells--long enough for the invading organs to gain a foothold...
...moment, the good guys are still underarmed and outnumbered. In many parts of the world, there is no public-health infrastructure to keep track of mysterious symptoms and tie them together. That lack allowed an illness like AIDS to arise in rural Africa and achieve a firm foothold before anyone realized what had happened. Basic public-health measures like vaccinations and sanitation are inadequate in many areas, with the result, for example, that diphtheria in Russia and cholera in Latin America have bounced back...
According to Gifford, many fast food places are eager to gain a foothold in Harvard Square...