Word: linked
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This summer, Microsoft played chicken with the Justice Department when it announced plans to incorporate a link between its proprietary network system and the much-touted (and honestly, inferior-to-Macintosh) Windows 95. This link took the form of a ubiquitous icon on the desktop, which would encourage users of Windows 95 to gain immediate and easy access to the Microsoft Network (MSN). Since MSN was new to the internet provider market, it would be at a decided advantage in gaining new subscribers. More than 80 percent of the world's computers run Microsoft Windows and almost all of them...
Some of Dick Carver's critics have tried to link him to militias and white supremacists, but it is a mistake to dismiss him as a just another extremist crackpot. The forces powering the Nye County rebellion are those resculpting the political and social landscape of America at large. They just happened to have converged with their greatest intensity in the West, where private and public interests clash directly and daily, typically over such visceral issues as land and water. The angry rebels range from ranchers fed up with bureaucrats' telling them when and where to graze their cattle...
Carver takes offense when critics try to link him to extremists, particularly white supremacists, and cites the fact that one branch of the Carver family helped rear George Washington Carver. "So black people are special to us," he says. He disavows fringe rhetoric but feels that as an elected official, he cannot discriminate against any audience just because its views are more extreme than his. Carver's policy: "If they pay for travel, if they give me a place to sleep, a hot dog to eat, I'll come. But I do not ally myself with any of them...
...having its funds cut off by budget slashers in the U.S. and other nations. Right now the U.S. owes the U.N. $1.4 billion in back dues, but many Congressmen object to paying up. Reform would take away one of their strongest arguments, and President Clinton is considering ways to link a promise of reform to payment of the debt...
Yesterday, Sakis arrived clean-shaven to work at the Eliot-Kirkland kitchen link...