Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a piece of low-cost software. Hidden in nearly every disk was an extra program not supplied by any manufacturer: a snippet of computer code many consider to be the world's most sophisticated computer virus. Every time an unsuspecting user lent his new disk to a friend or colleague, and every time the disk was run on a machine shared by other users, the code spread from one computer to another. Before long, the so- called Brain or Pakistani virus had found its way onto at least 100,000 floppy disks, sometimes with data-destroying impact...
...explained to my incredulous German friend that the United States is the only industrial nation, save South Africa, that doesn't guarantee medical treatment as a right of citizenship. In the nation that produces medical wonders such as the artificial heart, nearly 60 million people have either inadequate medical coverage, or no coverage...
Lurie, however, tips her hand, perhaps too early in the book, in the direction of heterosexual detente. The ex-husband, now remarried, is sketched as a decent fellow. Polly's closest friend, a cozy, catlike lesbian named Jeanne, shows herself, in the book's best characterization, to be malicious and totally self-absorbed. Most important, Polly's research, which she and her friends assume will prove that Painter Jones was abused and underrated by the men in her life, goes awkwardly sour. It turns out that Jones was indeed a genius but that she was far harder on men than...
...first you doubt, doubt again. Harry Truman's advice that "if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog" is funny but false, insisted Bennett. "I leave this job with a lot more friends than when I came. None of them are dogs...
...friend of mine at the paper insisted sportsare ridiculous. What's the point, she said. Win.Lose. Tie. What does it matter...