Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many of these people have been very active on the council, but they haven't been as much of an icon for council leadership...
...most clever. By helping to stave off the demise of Apple, Gates was preserving a market that generates each year many times more for Microsoft than what he paid. And has anyone noticed that Macs no longer ship with Netscape Navigator? That's right, the cheery Microsoft Internet Explorer icon is now the path to the Web for Mac users--many of whom bought Macs out of their hatred for Microsoft...
...some cases, there will be an uninstall icon in the program's folder in the Start menu. Others can be removed from the powerful but little-known Add/Remove Programs applet in the Windows 95 control panel...
...Mick," in particular, delivers some amazingly creative guitar work: Mascis as a pop icon is a little bit of a exaggeration, but the song is definitely one of the most melodious in his repertoire. Admittedly, lyrics like "I can't take myself/I'm trying to help somebody else" are nothing that's never been said before, but unless you have the album, you really can't tell what Mascis is saying anyway. Ignorance isn't necessarily bliss, but to a certain extent one has to remember that, with guitar talent like that, coherence is not always a priority...
...have caused, was Mandela's tremendous store of political capital: he had enough of the stuff to make any other world figure envious. Still, many wondered, what could possibly have possessed the man to squander his hard-earned prestige when he was so quickly approaching the status of an icon? In the ensuing discourse, a number of explanations were proffered to account for the ANC leader's tactlessness...