Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among his more ingenious creations: A refrigerator magnet picture frame, out of a bone. A new zipper for my jacket. A luggage tag. A slinky holder...
...financial and the personal disasters he leaves in his wake. Though secluded in Pebble Beach, he is not unscathed. "Nobody has lost more money on Morrison Knudsen than I have,'' he recently told a friend. While his complete severance package is still being negotiated, Agee remains the largest single holder of Morrison Knudsen stock. Unless the company's remaining overseers can find a way back to solvency, Agee's shares may soon be as devalued as his reputation for business acumen...
...copyright notice is now issued with every sourcebook Shapiro produces. "The reproduction of this material was copied with permission of the copyright holder," the disclaimer reads. "In an educational setting it is especially necessary to operate within the bounds of the copyright laws...
...password makes its holder a "super user,"capable of controlling the HASCS computers and allUnix accounts...
...Microsoft can patent and control. Moreover, the Internet is devoted to open-that is to say, nonproprietary-software systems. A week after the Internet community discovered that the gif (Graphics Interchange Format) system used to exchange pictures over the network contained a patented compression scheme and that the patent holder was demanding royalty payments, somebody came up with an alternative: gef, a graphics-exchange format that worked just like gif but was patent-free...