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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What type of monopoly is Microsoft? A look at the prices is rather edifying, so it's a pity His Majesty didn't look a little longer. When Windows 3.0 first came out in April 1990, a copy went for $205. The initial price of Windows 98, on the other hand, was only $169. Lowering cost to the consumer, it seems, just doesn't correlate with market virtue anymore. Although, in all fairness to Jackson, we are talking about only an 18 percent reduction...

Author: By Boleslaw Z. Kabala, | Title: In Defense of the Microsoft Monopoly | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...anyone who has opened a newspaper over the last couple of years knows the British royal family no longer commands the respect that used to be accorded to it in the era before tabloid journalism...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: The Queen In Parliament | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...What strikes me is that they're dancing around the living wage, and that after three years the living wage should have gone up with inflation, so this will no longer be a living wage," she said...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Labor Activists Win Disclosure, Wage Increase | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

...typical, there is no hope. It sounds as if the teachers are caretakers rather than educators. By declaring that Webster is typical, TIME does a disservice to schools across the country that are educating students. GEORGE CONKLIN Riverhead, N.Y. In the post-Littleton era, teachers and administrators no longer look the other way. Students begin to realize that cruelty has consequences. Gym class no longer means a risk of physical assault whenever the coach isn't looking. Cries for help are finally being listened to. Humanity begins to shine a feeble light down the corridors of what to many students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...Well, then, do you think John McCain doesn't smile enough? What do you think of the theory that, now that Elizabeth Dole is no longer smiling all the time, as a counter-balance John McCain ought to move to the smile center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugo Boss for Prez! | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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