Word: foundered
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Berkowitz's case could founder because theguidelines also specify that "complaints should besubmitted within eight weeks of the action ordecision that is the subject of the grievance."His tenure denial occurred over 18 months...
...embassy] is occupied by a group of illegitimate agents of the junta," said the founder of the coalition. "If the world believes this regime is not legitimate, they should close down the embassies...
...heart of Barksdale's testimony was a June 21, 1995, meeting between Netscape and Microsoft to discuss the Internet browser market. It was at that meeting, Netscape says, that Microsoft crossed the line from aggressive competitor to rapacious monopolist. "It was like a visit by Don Corleone," Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen recalled later. "I expected to find a bloody computer monitor in my bed the next day." Barksdale charged in his testimony that Microsoft's goal at the meeting was to illegally divide the browser market, keeping the lion's share for itself. "I have never been...
Being right--accurate--has been important to Wolfe since his earliest days as a New Journalist, when he wrote feature stories so vividly, employing such a wide array of techniques borrowed from fiction that some readers didn't believe they could be true. Jann Wenner, founder, editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, opened his magazine's pages to early versions of The Right Stuff, Bonfire and A Man in Full, and is a Wolfe friend and fan. "Many years ago, he used to get knocked for making stuff up," Wenner says. "But in my experience with him, which...
...wrestling fans, perhaps. But could the Body be a credible Governor? Steve Schier, chair of the political-science department at Carleton College, puts Ventura in the emerging populist tradition of Minnesota, a state that in 1992 gave 24% of its vote to Reform Party founder Ross Perot and in this decade has elected populists of both the left and the right--Democrat Paul Wellstone and Republican Rod Grams--to the U.S. Senate. Ventura's campaign slogan--"Retaliate in '98"--fits the tradition...