Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coach kept drilling defense and rebounding into our heads," Clemente said. "They're a really quick team and they're a good one-on-one team, but we just played great team defense...
...rewards openness. Information can no longer be easily controlled nor ideas repressed nor societies kept closed. A networked world facilitates free minds, free markets and free trade...
...your life here," his wife said to him one morning as he pored over charts, "I'd say you were having fun." Well, Grove was kind of having fun--his scientific mind was engaged by the prostate-cancer research. A second doctor offered another opinion: radiation-seed therapy. Grove kept reading. "You know," says Eva, "I was surprised by how he reacted to the disease. Normally he's a baby. Anytime someone has a headache, he's saying, 'Oh, it's cancer.' But this time it really was cancer. He was tough." A third doctor, a third opinion: the best...
Intel did not enjoy an uninterrupted march to greatness. The problem wasn't any lack of candlepower--Noyce, Grove and Moore were a dream team. The problem was the business itself. It kept changing. Just as Intel's leaders decided the future was in, say, selling dynamic RAM (a kind of short-term computer memory), messages started trickling back that sales were tanking, customers were evaporating and, ahem, top management had better pick a new strategy. It was a miserable way to run a company: desperately leaping into lifeboats, always at the last possible moment. One night Grove dreamed...
...course the Phillips Collection is the right place to start it, since Duncan Phillips was the only steady collector Dove had in his whole career and the relationship between the two men was one of the finer examples of mutual nurturing in the annals of American patronage. Phillips kept the wolf from Dove's door, but Dove opened Phillips to what was exclusively visual, not literary...