Word: meant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three-way race the ball takes funny bounces, and that is how Minnesota got a 6 ft. 4 in., 250-lb. Governor named Jesse ("The Body") Ventura, and all week Minnesotans were feeling sort of giddy about it, like Lutherans who've drunk a little more than we meant to and now here we are singing Alley Oop and dancing on the sofa. Who woulda thunk we could get this crazy...
...bother reading it. At a key point in his war against archrival Sun Microsystems, Gates fired off an e-mail about Microsoft's plans to use Apple Computer to "undermine Sun," but now he can't remember sending the message and has no idea what he could have meant by it. And although Microsoft had two high-level negotiations in June 1995 with Netscape--the company that seemed to pose the greatest threat to Microsoft's dominance--Gates says he learned of them only last spring in an article in the Wall Street Journal...
...relative newcomer to the FSC gambit is Microsoft, which helped lobby for a 59-word clause in the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 that sweetened the tax break for software makers. The result will cost taxpayers an extra $1.7 billion over the next 10 years. That's ostensibly meant to encourage Microsoft and others to export, but Microsoft is already an aggressive exporter. So the tax break is in effect a bonus to encourage Microsoft to do something it already does...
...Clinton. "I love American politics," she says, "because the facts constantly contradict the conventional wisdom." Of the dozen cover stories she has edited this year, Painton is most proud of two that did not come out of Washington: on the state of feminism and on gay politics. "One was meant to be an argument starter, and the other examined the complexity of gay issues. I'm interested in covering things that people really talk about...
...opposite of high school debates; it is only afterward that both sides really figure out where they stand. So, in the end, both of Seal's soured relationships helped him sort out his values. Says he: "I had a course in the meaning of love: what it meant to me and what I wanted from life...