Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clark committed the cardinal fielder's sin and let Bridich's grounder skip underneath his glove to score Mager and Portman...
Just before break, the University let "Sarah" move off-campus, a decision her roommates feel was a terrible one, because it will isolate her even further. "I spoke to my tutor about her," said Sarah's roommate. "You know what he said? "Thanks for your concern.' That...
...Yahoo! deal,? says Baumohl, ?is yet another indication that the company intends to use the enormous financial leverage of its highly valued stock to keep expanding. Yahoo! is now in a position to buy what it wants, and it couldn?t let this deal pass by.? The big Internet players, including the likes of America Online and Lycos, are in a race to strategically position themselves at the crossroads of computer, TV and telelephone information services. And so as long as investors are willing to pay for their high-priced stocks, the companies are willing to pay for high-priced...
...material to a central database. An even better solution would be to open up his document--and his computer--to everyone and allow them to link their stuff to his. He could limit access to his colleagues at CERN, but why stop there? Open it up to scientists everywhere! Let it span the networks! In Berners-Lee's scheme there would be no central manager, no central database and no scaling problems. The thing could grow like the Internet itself, open-ended and infinite. "One had to be able to jump," he later wrote, "from software documentation to a list...
Percy Spencer didn't know better than to bring candy with him into his microwave lab in 1946. When the American engineer, who was developing radar components for the Raytheon Corp., let his chocolate bar get too close to a piece of equipment, it turned into chocolate...