Word: meant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Apple envy comes in. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996 and resurrected it, his centrist, controlling approach looked crazy to many outsiders. The PC business had boomed, after all, in part because the software (that is, the operating system) was separated from the hardware. "PC compatibility" meant that anyone could build a box that ran Microsoft's Windows operating system, and that initially made many companies enormously successful, from Compaq to Dell. But it also created a race to the bottom as hardware makers were forced to continually offer consumers more bells and whistles for less money...
...different from any other competition,” tri-captain Devin Hein said. “There were flashing lights and the room was packed. But right after we took the floor for the first time it clicked for everybody and we saw what it meant to be a nationally competitive squad...
...instance, when members of the Westboro Baptist Church appeared in Cambridge last month, almost 400 protestors greeted them. The students who confronted the WBC had the best of intentions: They meant to show their opposition to a despicable group. Nevertheless, the WBC fed off the publicity like a cancer. It should have been ignored. But these students’ desire to show that they were better than these bigots proved too powerful to ignore...
...undue, might we remark on what interesting garments you have chosen to don this evening? In our day, business casual practically meant a three-piece suit. Well, it is true that cravats and waistcoats are only adopted now by a particular kind of man. But if you would just remove your Converse sneakers from the white linen—if you could just—ahh, here is the bill...
...Although the new regulations merely meant that citizens could apply for permission to travel abroad, a procedure that would take some time, and while the rule was not supposed to come into effect until the next day, the majority of the gathered press had no doubt that Schabowski's statement meant the end of the Berlin Wall. The news quickly spread and brought thousands of people to the border crossings where they demanded to pass. The border guards eventually gave in. (See TIME's cover story on the wall's fall...