Word: nimbler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...design Windows to boot up AOL or another Web address would erode its dominance. But PC makers are starting to win that kind of flexibility on their own. It comes down to a bet on Bill. He's had the answers so far, but he'll need to be nimbler from here...
...control early, making public the memos that confirmed the use of hot grenades, naming 40 agents to gather the facts and proposing that a reputable outsider head the new investigation. The extremely deliberate Reno would accede to all that later but seemed to be plodding two steps behind the nimbler FBI director. It wasn't the first time Freeh rushed to stake claim on the moral high ground. Reno's supporters say she deserved better...
...this movie offers us not one but two Zorros. There's an aging one, Don Diego (played with impeccable elegance by Anthony Hopkins), making a comeback after suffering a long imprisonment, to fight a resurgence of tyranny in old, Spanish-controlled California. In the process he recruits a young, nimbler apprentice, Alejandro (portrayed by Antonio Banderas), who's not afraid of acting a little dumb until his mentor smartens him up, cools his ardent blood and teaches him the skills that make him worthy of wearing the black mask of the gallant outlaw...
...modernization of instruments is that tempos have become slower than Beethoven intended. The strings of his time simply could not sustain chords as long as the instruments of today can. Gardiner takes Beethoven's metronome markings -- once scorned as impossibly brisk -- at face value. The performances are therefore far nimbler than is typical, but such is the virtuosity of Gardiner's 60-piece orchestra that the music never seems rushed or scrambled. Listen, for example, to the famous finale of the Ninth / Symphony. The "Turkish march" usually sounds like an inappropriately comic intrusion in an otherwise profound movement. Gardiner takes...
Still, analysts insist that IBM must get even leaner -- perhaps paring at least 50,000 more jobs within the next two years -- if it is to meet the challenge from smaller and nimbler competitors. Says Bruce Lupatkin, an industry analyst: "There's still a lot of fat left." CEO Akers agrees that layoffs are necessary for the company's long-term survival. "Although it's a difficult step to take," he says, "it's one that, given the realities, if we must do it, we must...