Word: mix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name and reputation on the line here," concedes Gates. "If we don't pull this off, it could jeopardize our future initiatives." Previous office-automation efforts failed, largely because customers did not want to be wedded to one vendor's hardware. Although the Microsoft system will let users mix and match printers, copiers, phones and faxes of competing manufacturers, some customers will be reluctant to dispose of their existing hardware and invest in expensive new gear...
...activism, and the scholarship, provide a curious if not surprising mix given Goldfarb's background. He comes from a middle-class New York Jewish family. His parents were children of immigrants who valued education above all else and were willing to make financial sacrifices to send a son to Harvard...
...There was football, which I hated, because it was wet and cold, but it was what your boyfriend invited you to," she says. "I really loathed it, but I think I was at every football and baseball game. It was a silly time, but I think you have to mix the silly and the serious...
...virility and women court him. When it is revealed that he only wounded his father, they turn on him as a fraud. The adulation makes emotional sense if one sees parricide as a metaphor for rebellion against a political patriarchy. The rage at the hero's failure is a mix of thwarted longing for excitement and dashed hopes for social change...
...dining hall and they didn't seem interested in getting to know many students. This issue was brought up with the masters and some of the tutors, and I remember saying that if tutors took the time to try and get involved in House life and to mix with various students at meals or in activities, complaints about the tutors using the system for a free ride would be almost extinguished...