Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is Be? To those mainstream computer users who've even heard of the upstart operating system known as the BeOS, it's the also-also-ran, that other alternative operating system besides Linux. In the past year the press has fawned over Apple and Linux as they boldly challenged the hegemony of Microsoft's Windows, while Be waited quietly in the wings. Now, with its parent company making an IPO this week, it's time for Be to make its grand entrance. So what is Be? Why is Intel spending millions on it? And why should Bill Gates...
...Shanabarger sat up all night, watching over her husband Ron. She had sent him to bed after he had told her the story. Only she and God knew what he had said--and Amy wanted to make sure someone else heard from Ron's own lips the enormity of his crime. He was the only proof she had. Then, the horror story echoing in her head, the words hanging in the air of the house in Franklin, Ind., they had scrimped and saved to buy, she stayed up to make sure he did not do anything to himself. They...
...also generous to charitable causes and is God's gift to the spectacle and sunglass industry. John's rep says that the singer's finances are in fine harmony and that the loan is merely to help him buy back rights to six of his albums. Has he ever heard of a budget...
...arsenal of curious things an artist can do with colored pigment, Ann Hamilton summoned up the equivalent of a cruise missile and fired a shot heard round Venice's Grand Canal. Hamilton, 43, is this year's star-power artist officially representing the U.S. at the 48th Venice Biennale, the oldest of the international art expositions. With 59 countries participating and more than 100 artists on view through Nov. 7, there is, as ever, notable work amid a great deal of minor junk. At the opening, Hamilton's minimalist installation--four rooms that appear empty but for a shower...
...game the Fed. For weeks on end I heard talking head after talking head spouting that the Federal Reserve Board was about to embark on a string of tightenings to cool down the economy. The Fed watchers had it all figured out. Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had repeatedly leaked that the rollicking days of a strong economy were over. He was going to put the brakes on the longest peacetime advance with a series of rapid-fire interest-rate hikes that would send the stock market into a tizzy...