Word: home
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Creator and Direct CD) was pre-installed on the PC and started automatically. Following the on-screen prompts, I created a duplicate of my game in about an hour. When the copy was made, the drive automatically ejected the disc, which I popped into my briefcase and took home to my top-secret night...
...first my home PC couldn't read the disc. After a few tries, however, it started working. Go figure. Even more curious was that it took more than 20 minutes to install the program on my hard drive. When I used the original discs on a similar machine at work, it took less than five minutes. Why? It turns out that CD-RW discs use a less reflective material than CD-R discs, which makes them harder to read on older drives. Indeed, if your CD-ROM drive is more than a year old, it may not be able...
When she married Fairbanks in 1920, the two reigned as Hollywood's king and queen in their legendary home, Pickfair. He was the athletic bon vivant, she the gracious princess. But the poetic silent picture was replaced by the prosaic talkie, and Pickford was finally too old for her girlish grit to be convincing. She made her last film in 1933 at 40, and within a few years Jack, Lottie and Doug were dead. Bereft, she quietly drank herself to oblivion, pickled in Pickfair. By her death in 1979, only a few oldsters could recall Little Mary with anything like...
...library full of books have been written for working moms. But what about fathers who want to balance responsibilities at the office with those at home? Business Dad: How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa), by Tom Hirschfeld with Julie Hirschfeld (Little, Brown), attempts to reconcile the briefcase and the diaper bag. The book is sometimes too cute by half--thank goodness, there's no real degree known as a Master of Baby Administration--but Hirschfeld gives useful advice to the businessman who wants to make a difference in his children's life. "Companies get bought...
Term limits seem like such a good idea on the hustings, but when the time to pack up and head for home comes around, many members of Congress have trouble saying goodbye...