Word: orders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trial included substantial evidence that Microsoft used strong-arm tactics to discourage its competitors from developing software that would rival Microsoft's own products, attempted to collude with Netscape in order to divide the market for Web browsers, linked products to force consumers to purchase both its operating system and its Web browser and gave preferential treatment to companies that pre-installed Microsoft's Internet Explorer on their computers...
...something else is going on, and I think Malthus may have sensed it coming. As long ago as 1679, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (the Dutch inventor of the microscope) speculated that the limit to the human population would be on the order of 13 billion--remarkably close to many current estimates. For our position in the natural world is once again undergoing a sea change. We are not the first nor are we the only species to spread around the globe, but we are the first to do so as an integrated economic entity. Other species maintain tenuous genetic connections...
...continue, at our present rate, to strip-mine the sea of its living resources, 25 years from now we'll be lucky to find a seafood menu that offers a rock sandwich with a side order of kelp. Consider the swordfish: angler's prize, gourmet's delight, fisherman's livelihood. In the mid-'60s, when I was in my mid-20s, I caught a swordfish off Long Island. I wasn't trying to; it took bait meant for sharks. The fish was weirdly, atypically lethargic. It didn't struggle much, didn't leap at all, just tugged for a while...
...funny: I can engage in all sorts of fun, perilous activities like riding my motorcycle in Manhattan, catching ultraviolet rays in California or playing racquetball without goggles, and no one admonishes me "for my own good." But I order one slice of tiramisu and it triggers all kinds of unsolicited solicitousness. Thanks for the concern, gang, but for me that tiramisu and the freedom to enjoy it are--like music, the theater and friends--an essential part of what gives quality to my life...
...that. "It's just extraordinary," Robert Blendon, a Harvard University professor of health policy, told The Dallas Morning News. "Here they are saying that there are other ways to save money without rationing care. It removes a fundamental tenet of how these plans have been operating in order to be cost-effective...