Word: longer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's a problem for computer makers, whose industry is fast becoming commoditized. "It's no longer a technology business. You don't need a team of engineers to build a PC today," says Steven Dukker, CEO of eMachines. These issues have computer executives shuddering as the PC business matures into one in which price trumps brand and profit margins are narrowing. Dukker's company is the upstart leader in the ultracheap market that is suddenly rewriting the business model of the personal-computer industry. It's partly to blame for the recent sell-off of technology stocks that...
...confessional, transforming it into the subject of quantifiable research. In one case, they have even systemized it as a 20-part "intervention" that they claim can be used to treat a number of anger-related ills in a totally secular context. In short, to forgive is no longer just divine...
...romance: "It struck me that all the characters were involved in a conflict between the desire for love and the desire to maintain their dignity," he says. Along the way, he unwittingly discovered another conflict between the sexes: "It was a contest to see whether Michelle or Kevin took longer in makeup...
...Clinton Doctrine is an expression, in policy and in bombs, of a post-cold war approach to the world perhaps best enunciated by Leslie Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1994, Gelb wrote that America's "main strategic challenge" in the world was no longer dealing with Russia or China or Germany or trade or loose nukes. It was managing the "teacup wars" of the world, "wars of national debilitation, a steady run of uncivil civil wars sundering fragile but functioning nation-states...
...what point did COLIN POWELL realize the awards show took longer than the ground war in Iraq...