Word: grab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more sophisticated--and malicious--hands, the defect can be used to insert a "Trojan horse," a program that can stealthily take over your PC and, for instance, grab your passwords. More than 17 million PCs have the affected versions of Microsoft's Outlook 98 and Outlook Express and Netscape's Communicator...
...somehow failed to assess the ways that feminism has changed the intellectual, legal and political landscape since the late 1960s. Instead you assembled a grab bag of popular-culture effusions that, taken together, form a ghastly caricature that only antifeminists would recognize. TIME also managed to miss the fact that many men call themselves feminists. We're not the wishy-washy cliches of popular culture, either. We simply respect women, oppose attempts to keep them relegated to second-class status and join with women in the cause of equal rights. RICHARD B. BERNSTEIN New York City...
...musical is now more than content to do the can-can with silverware. Could Disney be sending out subliminal messages to young girls about how a woman's place should be in the home, or is this critic simply paranoid? After witnessing the feather duster (Heather Lee) grab at her breasts while proclaiming how attractive she is, this reviewer leaves you to make the call...
...that hardly fazes this hard-charging chopper rider, who says of his quest to rebuild AT&T, "We've just begun to assemble the components." The giant that almost slept through the '90s has awakened in time to make a grab for control of the digital home...
...irritating. Clearveil Corp. of Denver offers an alternative way to cleanse your home or office of airborne dust, bacteria, cat dander and cigarette smoke. The Jenn-Air SilentAir purifier ($229) is thin and light and, best of all, silent. Like other filters, it sends out negative ions to grab hold of the pollutants. Unlike other filters, it has a charged metal strip to lure them back in--no noisy fan or motor. It takes longer to freshen a room, but finicky types might find it well worth the extra peace and quiet...