Word: opening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is open to everyone," Danganan said. "You can be socially responsible in a corporate firm...
...pledge is open to personal interpretation--Stevens said seniors may take a job and decide to work within the organization to encourage socially responsible policies, or they might decline a position altogether based on the company's practices...
...Yeltsin, however, does not have the luxury of choice. He has to keep fighting, and that is becoming ever harder for him. Despite claims, more often heard in Washington than in Moscow, that "Boris is back" in the driver's seat, his physical health and mental lucidity are often open to question. After dismissing Primakov last week, he seemed confused. The chairs of both houses of parliament say that when Yeltsin phoned to inform them of Primakov's dismissal, he told them his new nominee would be Nikolai Aksenenko, the Railways Minister. Shortly afterward, Stepashin's name was formally announced...
...Apple's Mac operating system--though it will run on virtually any PC and most Macs. Supposedly 15 million people use it worldwide. (Since it's available free, no one knows how many copies have actually been passed around.) It's also the poster child of the so-called open-source movement. Unlike Microsoft Windows or the Mac OS, Linux and many of the programs that work with it are built and maintained by volunteers scattered all over the Net. The source code, the usually secret "recipe" that determines how the software works, is published online for anyone to read...
...keep and bear arms. However, take a quick look around pop culture, and you will easily find examples of how violence is considered a creative outlet. Movies try to outdo one another in innovative gore, video games teach kids how to use guns, and the Internet is a wide-open forum. So while we're chipping away at the Second Amendment, why not peel back some layers of the First Amendment, which permits freedom of speech? Aren't we willing to subject movies, video games and the Internet to the same scrutiny as guns? SCOTT BLEDSOE Naples, Italy...