Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light of the lucrative settlements that many states have reached with tobacco companies, it is no surprise that the city of Chicago is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from another societal cancer, the country's leading gun makers. The city has charged them with creating a public hazard by flooding markets with their product and by using lenient standards in distribution control. As a result, prosecutors contend, gun makers have assured that criminals have access to firearms...
Death in the movies is usually swift and merciful. A gun goes off, and someone's brains are splattered Pollock-like across a wall. Or a blue steel blade flashes in the night, and someone is left crumpled on the carpet, surrounded by a spreading crimson stain. Or an asteroid strikes Earth, and hundreds of colorful New Yorkers are crushed by the Chrysler Building. Sigh. We should all die so crisply and photogenically...
...reported in this magazine, here's what happened next: "Communist terrorists (who obviously had cased the place well) crept out of the darkness and surrounded the mess hall. Two positioned a French MAT machine gun in the rear window, two pushed gun muzzles through the pantry screen, the other two went to the front of the building to cover the Vietnamese guard. When Sergeant Ovnand snapped on the lights to change the first reel, the Communists opened fire...
Even as Bill Gates pleaded ignorance in court last week of his smoking-gun e-mails, two fresh Microsoft memos mysteriously surfaced that give an inside glimpse into how the software giant responds to new ideas it finds threatening. It isn't a pretty sight. "These memorandums lay naked the assumptions of Microsoft's corporate culture--the insularity, the arrogance, the obsessive drive to control," declares Eric Raymond, the programmer who obtained the files and posted them on his website www.opensource.org...
...Apple senior vice president Avadis Tevanian. Apple says Microsoft threatened to withhold a key piece of software--Microsoft Office for Macintosh--unless Apple joined Microsoft's war on Netscape's Internet browser. But Gates offered Boies no help on this point. Presented with what seemed to be a smoking gun--an e-mail to Gates from Microsoft executive Don Bradford saying that "Mac Office is the perfect club" to get Apple to take actions that "significantly/materially disadvantage Netscape"--Gates claimed he knew nothing about...