Word: launch
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...latest version of Windows, Bob ties together all the uses most people will have for their home computer into cartoon-like images of a living room, kitchen or den. Many of the objects on the desks and shelves do things. Click on the paper and pencil, for example, to launch a word-processing program. Click on the calendar to bring up your daily appointment book. Click on a checkbook to see where your money has gone. When you get stuck, cutesy characters with attitude help you out with grunts and gestures and little bits of printed instruction. Microsoft says...
...covering 79% of the country), and is promising advertisers an optimistic 7 rating (nearly what Fox now averages in a typical week), largely because of high expectations for its Star Trek series. Warner, which has confirmed only 43 affiliates thus far but says more will be on board by launch time, has had to resort to cable -- it will be carried on superstation WGN -- to boost its coverage to 72% of the country...
...suit alleges that Allen shared confidential information obtained during that time with Harvard "and the two are using the information to launch their hostile takeover bid for the Nichols Company," the statement says...
Rather than wait until the State of the Union address to launch his legislative counterattack, Clinton planned a speech for this week. He did so partly because he didn't want to give the Republicans "a free ride for the next 60 days," said an Administration official. But Clinton also feared that the nation was beginning to tune him out. Last Friday, after delivering a forceful defense of free trade at the Americas Summit in Miami, Clinton met privately with 30 lawmakers from both parties. Wisconsin Republican Toby Roth, a fierce conservative, stood up and suggested the election might have...
...National Archives today released an April 17, 1954 memo (signed by the secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including use of atomic weapons, will be employed to inflict maximum destruction of enemy forces," the memo says. (Eisenhower later admitted to using nuclear brinkmanship to move along U.S.-Chinese negotiations.) BTW: The memo -- one of only 30 numbered copies...