Word: kleine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that happened. As the hours evaporated, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates asked for a final session in which to plead his case for allowing Windows 98 to be marketed without any Federal Government objections. And so on Tuesday evening, at the headquarters of Microsoft?s Washington lobbyists, Gates met Joel Klein, the department?s top antitrust enforcer...
Gates did most of the talking; Klein had instructed his aides to ?let him have his say.?Gates argued that Microsoft?s contributions to computer technology justified Windows 98?s release, despite the DOJ?s claims that it violated not just a 1995 court agreement but also the basic principles of antitrust policy. Klein held his ground, amazed at Gates? lack of sophistication in realizing to what extent the DOJ?s action might go beyond Windows 98. The two-hour session produced a stalemate. Gates, said insiders, was ?intelligent, forceful and, above all, passionate,? but regulators were deaf...
...suddenly claim an emergency when it could have sought to clarify the matter back in December, as Justice was quick to point out in its brief to the appeals court. Calling the last-minute crisis over the release of Windows 98 "a self-generated hardship," DOJ point man Joel Klein made it clear that the company should have asked a lot sooner if it really was interested in a speedy answer...
...face since last December, and that the company has only itself to blame for failing to seek clarification on the issues that may now delay the release of Windows 98. It's hardly surprising to add that the Tuesday night talks between Bill Gates and DOJ point man Joel Klein were fruitless, with Gates maintaining that Windows is not an operating system monopoly...
...though depending on one's taste and circumstances, this too could be a downside. Other treatments, which involve vacuum pumps, penile implants and penis rings, are no less awkward or, to get to the heart of the matter, no more conducive to the spontaneous, unselfconscious, beautiful sex that Calvin Klein ads imply is our daily right...