Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment he clicked on Send, the entire Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., went dark. And the darkness was very great. The a.c. shuddered to a halt. He heard his employees keening and wailing over lost data. His office was filled with creeping things and birds of the air. Beads of sweat dripped from his nose. Acrid smells drifted in, the website burning after a multitude of hits by Hittites, and he heard the clatter of hooves: a herd of crazed swine trotted down the hall, little pink eyes aglow, pagers clipped to their ears. On his way out, he touched...
...must have heard about...
...heard her. Every time I thought there was a fire drill...
Most people outside the publishing world never heard of RUTH WHITNEY, the editor in chief of Glamour magazine for 31 years, until last August. And that's the way she wanted it. But it's not an overstatement to say that Ruth changed the way many women saw the world and themselves. As we navigated the tricky and challenging waters of the women's movement, this thinking woman's editor prodded, provoked and pushed us. It's hard to imagine where women would be without her. Ruth put substance over style. She was fearless, solid, unwavering. There wasn...
Gore's interest in the Balkans goes back long before the current crisis. While still in Congress, he was denouncing Slobodan Milosevic on the Senate floor when few Americans had even heard of him; in his first week as Bill Clinton's running mate, he pressed the Arkansas Governor to make the Balkans a foreign policy priority. But now the whole endeavor is playing out in peculiarly personal terms for Gore: the success of a Kosovo peace plan will bear directly on his run for the presidency...