Word: grinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Steve Jobs is sitting in the Apple boardroom. Actually, he is slouched like a teenager in one of the cushy leather chairs, his worn jogging shoes resting on the directors' table. The table is very long, very impressive--and very empty. Just Jobs here, wearing shorts and an impish grin. The old board of directors at Apple is history, he says. He's about to leave for Boston, where he'll make that news public, along with a far more dramatic announcement. One more thing, he says, feet still propped up on the executive woodwork--the company's headquarters...
...paying homage to the one person who is most of all responsible for the creation of this edifice...' Dorothy Buffum Chandler sat shyly in her seat...while the applause rose around her. Only after four minutes, when her son Otis tugged her to her feet, did she rise and grin happily at the applauding audience...
...turned out, Pathfinder rolled to a stop in precisely the right position, with its base down and its antenna up. Inside mission control, Manning squinted at his monitor and saw that contact with the ship had been maintained. "A signal is barely visible," he announced with a grin. The controllers burst into cheers...
...institutions, but do not marry them. Establishments exist to moderate; they look for function. You are likely to work for some company or other, but keep a safe distance. There is no contempt as bitter as that felt by compromised minds for the independent ones that have joined them. Grin broadly at the water cooler, and go home to where you live...
...were halfheartedly trying to fend off the photographer, the way moms do in old home movies. It's rare to see a male model so clearly the object of the viewer's gaze; it's as if he were, well, a female model. His pose and sheepish grin suggest he has been caught out at something--consciously mirroring, perhaps, readers who might not want their friends to know they have practiced the magazine's FOUR MORE EXERCISES THAT WILL HELP YOU TRAIN FOR ATHLETIC...