Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although for the moment, MIT is the bride of choice in this academic-industrial marriage, Microsoft hints that it may find other academic partners in the future. The trade school down the river simply won the honor of being first...
...Monday morning, and Jobs is onstage at the Flint Center in Cupertino, obsessing. Tomorrow the auditorium will overflow with thousands of Apple loyalists; right now he's rehearsing the killer moment where he says, "Say hello to the new iMacs," and the machines glide out from behind the dark curtain and across the stage. But the current lighting leaves their translucence insufficiently vivid on the gigantic onstage screen. So Jobs wants the lights brighter and turned on earlier in the roll-out. The producer, Steph Adams, speaks into his headset, telling the backstage guys to yeah, just try it again...
...building his cabin on land the brothers had bought together outside Lincoln. One day, Ted recalls, they took their baseball gloves to a park. "We were as far apart as we could get and still reach each other with the ball," Ted says, smiling, as if lost in the moment. "We were throwing that ball as hard as we could, and as far as we could... And so we were making these running, leaping catches. We made more fantastic catches that day than I think we did in all the rest of our years together...
...guitar and bought a pair of turntables. "I got tired of playing the guitar--it's simple as that," says Watt, who now does a weekly deejay stint at a London club and whose scratching is featured on Everything But the Girl's new CD Temperamental. "For the moment, working on my deejay skills seems like an interesting area to explore...
...British Columbia in search of brown trout and steelheads. Having accumulated a fortune, "I do what I want to do," he says. He wishes the same for his employees, who often refer to his "Let my people go surfing" speech, in which he told them to live in the moment, "as long as the work gets done," and if the surf is up, surf...