Word: groves
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...Bill Gates put the squeeze on Andy Grove? That's the latest antitrust charge federal investigators are pursuing in the Microsoft case, according to Wednesday's New York Times. Attempting to prove a pattern of abuse of monopoly power, the feds are focusing on a well-known August 1995 confab between Gates and Grove at Intel's campus. The Microsoft CEO was "livid" about certain software developments at the Intel Architecture Lab (IAL), according to an internal memo; the thought of the chipmaker meddling in multimedia and Java programs that would conflict with Microsoft's Windows ambitions...
...when a person claims to be a former homosexual who was saved by Christ, that person is immediately battered? I do not hate homosexuals; I hate the act of homosexual sex. And I am fully in favor of turning people away from homosexuality to Christ. CLINTON M. LATSHA West Grove...
There are previous period recordings of Schumann's symphonies (notably a superb 1994 set by Roy Goodman and the Hanover Band on RCA), but these performances are the most brilliant, penetrating and communicative. They may even force Grove, in the new edition now being prepared, to reverse its judgment...
...irrefutable greatness rests on the expressive richness of his piano music and the beauty of his lyric songs. However, his stature as a symphonist has remained unsettled since his death in 1856. For some he is the link between Schubert's lyricism and Brahms' grandeur. But The New Grove Dictionary dismisses his symphonies as "inflated piano music with mainly routine orchestration." Because of their melodic fecundity and power, they remain widely performed and recorded. Still, conductors from Gustav Mahler to George Szell have edited their working scores, attempting to compensate for Schumann's putative deficiencies: amateurish orchestration; opaque, overdense textures...
...exactly what they are contracted to do. If people want more, they should supplement the coverage with their own money or go somewhere else. That's the American way. And if HMOs are making such obscene profits, let's go buy stock in 'em. CHARLES H. LOWRY Garden Grove, Calif...