Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...James Barksdale, the folksy former Netscape CEO who testified at the trial that Microsoft tried to suffocate his company, hailed the findings of fact as "an 11 on a 10-point scale." Michael Morris, general counsel for Sun Microsystems, crowed that "Microsoft is in deep, deep trouble, and they know it." Klein, flanked by Attorney General Janet Reno at a celebratory press conference, declared that it "shows once again that in America, no person and no company is above...
...awareness training" for the ad side. Yet in an interview with TIME last Thursday, some defensiveness seemed to be creeping back. She cited a recent Boston Globe report pointing out that promotional ties and revenue sharing are becoming more widespread at newspapers. "It makes me feel better to know it's a common industry practice," says Downing. "What I did was unfortunate. It was a mistake. I feel badly about the cloud it has put--for a little while--over the L.A. Times, but I feel great that the editorial integrity of the issue is intact...
...raised a Roman Catholic, but gave little thought to the Good Book when she had her first child at 17. Before long, though, she joined a gang and had fallen into the habit of having babies. She has eight kids and another due any day. "I didn't know a lot about birth control," Campos says. She has since studied her options and decided on a tubal ligation: a common procedure, usually performed after delivery, that permanently prevents pregnancy. "It has taken me since I was 17 to get off welfare and get a good job," says Campos...
...golfer, claims his game surpasses that of the character he plays. "I had to come up with a lousy swing to be believable in this film," he says. "There are a number of people I play with regularly whom I just copied." Asked to name names, Newhart demurs: "They know who they...
Maybe you can argue that teens should not be shunted aside, but I am curious to know how they've come to be worshipped instead. Now that I am fully grown, I sense two prevailing cultural obsessions that ignore me once again. In American culture, there is potential and nostalgia; we are fascinated by prodigies first and has-beens second. Stuck in the middle are millions like me, living in those awkward years between promising potential and ironic demise. And the parameters of the present keep pushing in. To the tune of discarded disco anthems, our eyes pan slowly from...