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If Gates is feeling a little cranky these days, he has good reason. The Justice Department just derailed his $2 billion bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken electronic-checkbook program, a deal that would have helped realize Microsoft's ambition to make money from almost every commercial transaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL GATES: MINE, ALL MINE | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

But what Gates and Bingaman could not have foreseen is that the case would land before the ornery intellect of Stanley Sporkin-a former chief of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission who never learned the meaning of the words "It's none of my business.'' The more Sporkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIPPING UP THE TITAN | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

The Beans are no-accounts too numerous to count. They are the one-family inner city of dismal little Egypt, Maine. They do odd jobs. They hunt deer out of season and do stupid, self-destructive things in all seasons. They seem to have never heard of contraception. They have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Yankee Snopes | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

Bellow responded that a journalist had misunderstood that particular "piercing question" and noted that neither the Bulgarians nor the Americans have a Proust. Then he made the ornery outburst: "My critics, many of whom could not locate Papua New Guinea on the map, want to convict me of contempt for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Knocking Away the Pigeons | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

ORNERY IS A GOOD TEXAS WORD. IT'S probably the word Tommy Lee Jones' teachers were searching for when, on a report card at his Dallas prep school, they described him as "sullen, morose and belligerent." But ornery is just a corruption of ordinary. And this eighth-generation Texan has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Damn,He's Good | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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