Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...court-ordered breakup of AT&T. Each of these mini-Microsofts would be nearly identical, selling the same software but in competition with one another. George Washington University law professor Bill Kovacic, an antitrust expert, calls this a "radical chemo-therapy" option. Notwithstanding the AT&T and Standard Oil cases, he says, judges are often reluctant to go this far in restructuring an errant monopolist...
Still, government lawyers refuse to rule out the possibility that they will recommend this extreme remedy. Microsoft could be divided regionally, as Big Oil and Ma Bell were. But which one would Gates run? And how long would it take this consummate businessman to reacquire his "babies...
...seas. But one day as she was studying weather maps below, the autopilot misread the wind. The boat veered sharply and rolled over so quickly that Autissier barely had time to seal the cabin. "Everything was a wreck," she later told TIME via satellite. "The compartment was full of oil and diesel, and water was everywhere." Still, she dared not risk abandoning ship for a raft on the open sea. "That boat was my only survival," she said. "If it went down, I went down...
This willful approach paid off; through visual puns and analogies, the photographs play with the physicality of objects--books, paintings, objets d'art--not usually thought of as wholly physical. Morell delights in the frame of an oil portrait, the ghost negative of light on a color plate viewed at the wrong angle, the way the curve of the page interrupts an engraving. His choice of objects, often the kind that might arouse an antiquarian's obscure joy, recall the contents of Joseph Cornell's boxes, but the mood is different, more curious than nostalgic...
...Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north, the Muslim Hausa-Fulani elite who run the military. The Yoruba and the southeastern Igbo people are bitterly resentful that successive military governments have plundered the wealth derived from the rich oil fields of the impoverished south...