Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takes a crisis to tell us that unless citizens are willing to stand up for [the Constitution], it's not worth the paper it's written on," he added...
...really nice things about writing for the paper and expressing your NCAA tournament woes is that people read...
...little too gauche, you can't deny that Bill Gates likes to use broad brush strokes. Business @ the Speed of Thought is full of them: How he turned Microsoft around like a supertanker on a dime and pointed it toward the Internet in late 1995. How a plague of paper records at his Redmond, Wash., headquarters was all but eradicated under his guidance. And so on. But the boldest, broadest stroke of all is this: at a time when the Justice Department appears likely to pop the software Goliath one on the chin, Gates studiously manages to keep...
...years, textile manufacturer Milliken & Co. allegedly stole information from a host of rivals without so much as a bug or a mole. Instead, according to a lawsuit filed last October by Johnston Industries, based in Columbus, Ga., one Milliken employee posed as a business-school student researching a paper, and another played a Swiss banker seeking investment opportunities. One alleged target, NRB Industries, has reportedly settled its case against Milliken. The $2 billion-a-year titan has denied the charges, but Johnston, a $330 million-a-year textile firm, claims it lost $30 million to the alleged skullduggery. "It defies...
...better, the greeting came from my elder brother Martin, who had never mailed me a "real" birthday card. Then came a second e-card from a friend at work, and another from a gym buddy. By day's end I had almost as many electronic greetings as old-fashioned paper ones...