Word: locks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...launching of Teledesic left some critics wondering whether it is just another example of Gates' flexing Microsoft's muscle to lock out the competition, in this case by moving to control as large a share as possible of the limited supply of satellite slots when the FCC auctions them later this year. Those slots will only grow in value as the information highway is built. Certainly Gates is hedging his bets. Microsoft is working on development of the magic-box system. Its co-venture with Mtel will position it in new delivery technologies. Up until now, most people had assumed...
...done-ing' me. But I knew I had missed the shot. I made the mistake of running for cover instead of turning around, coldly analyzing the situation and shooting a great execution picture . . . Why didn't we help them? I personally appealed to a policeman, 'Take your prisoners and lock them up.' But some ((other)) poor policeman had just discovered one of the bodies that the ((neo-Nazis)) shot, a civilian. He was angry and just said, 'F--- it,' and shot them . . . Inside, a voice is screaming 'My God!' But it is time to work. Deal with the rest later...
Newland represents perhaps the most pristine, focused work of Day-Lewis' career. In the Name of the Father, a triumph of sustained and shaded rage, earned Day-Lewis an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He probably won't win; Tom Hanks is considered a lock for his role as an AIDS sufferer in Philadelphia. But even if that happens, it will be a tribute to Day-Lewis' Hollywood clout because he was offered and declined the Hanks role -- as he did the role of Lestat, now taken by Tom Cruise, in Interview with the Vampire...
...controversial sentencing bill known as "three strikes, you're out" was signed into law by California Governor Pete Wilson. Enacted in the wake of a national furor over the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, allegedly by a parolee, the measure would lock up third-time violent felons for life without parole...
Bryant also mentioned other sources of titillation for the student body. "We used to have to lock up the New York Native, because people would rip out the ads in the back. Also, Schlesinger Library has On Out Backs, a lesbian magazine...