Word: marc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They can reside anywhere on the Internet, called up by whoever needs them, whenever they need them. It's a development that could finally make true Sun's original and hitherto cryptic slogan: The Network Is the Computer. "There's a paradigm shift every 10 or 15 years," says Marc Andreessen, a Web pioneer and co-founder of Netscape Communications. "And we're in one right...
...tough sell. It runs slower than conventional languages, and the software libraries that streamline a programmer's task are still being written for Java. But Java offers would-be software moguls something no other programming environment can: a way to completely bypass the software-industry middlemen. "These wonderfully brilliant Marc Andreessens will stay up all night eating Twinkies, drinking Jolt and writing in Java," predicts Sun's McNealy. "Then they'll put something out on the Web, and boom!--word of mouth!" The trick, which Microsoft has mastered but Sun and Netscape have not, will be to find...
...sixth sense about the data their five senses gather today. Certainly many people outrank them in the child-welfare hierarchy, yet their views carry the greatest weight. Only they "walk up the drug-filled staircase, sit on the dirty couch and talk to the teenage mother," says Marc Parent, who spent four years as a caseworker in New York City. As the Elisa Izquierdo case demonstrates, "if you get a caseworker who goes to somebody's home and says it's fine, then it's fine," notes Parent. "That's how important their voice is." They get no public recognition...
...even the most dedicated caseworkers make mistakes. Marc Parent remembers vividly the 1990 Bronx case that finally broke his spirit. On the last call of a long night shift, Parent and his partner mounted six flights of stairs, passing drug dealers and crack addicts, in search of the mother in her late 20s who was reportedly neglecting her child. When they entered the apartment, they encountered mice and five filthy children, some naked, some half-dressed. Though Parent inspected the infant in question, he didn't unwrap the baby's blanket to look at the body or take the child...
...Marc A. Cavane, another law school student, summarized the speech as follows: "The older you are the wiser you are, and the better stories you tell...