Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Flake, who this month announced that he is leaving Congress to devote himself full-time to his church job, says Allen A.M.E. has "taken an urban community that by the press's definition was blighted and turned it around. The best role for government is to be a partner in that process...
...tale of Steve Jobs has long been a Silicon Valley legend. It was Jobs who, as a long-haired and barefoot twentysomething, set in motion the revolution called the personal computer by making it "user friendly" to the masses. Jobs didn't invent the machine; his partner Steve Wozniak was the real engineer. But Jobs understood before anyone else the key to transforming the computer from a geek's expensive toy into a household appliance. Instead of writing commands in computerese, Macintosh owners used a mouse to point and click on easily identifiable icons on the screen--a trash...
McNealy will need all the allies he can get. Last week's deal, which commits Apple to developing a Java platform with Microsoft (Apple is also free to partner elsewhere), was an attack on the Sun/Netscape/Apple alliance that would use Java to fight Microsoft for control of the Web. Gates wants a proprietary Java platform optimized for Windows. This deal moves him closer to that goal while nudging his rivals further from their own. "Netscape could have shored up the Macintosh situation," says Dave Winer, an early Mac developer. "Same with Sun. They could have given Apple $150 million. They...
After Els introduced himself to the world with his victory in the 1994 U.S. Open at Oakmont, Pa., playing partner Curtis Strange said, "I think I just played with the next god." Eschewing that elevation, Els said he thought he might win another Open some day. That day came last June, when he outlasted Tom Lehman, Colin Montgomerie and Jeff Maggert at Congressional...
WELD: A.B. summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1966; J.D. cum laude, 1970; diploma with distinction, Oxford University, 1967. Partner, firm Hill & Barlow, 1971-81; associate minority counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Impeachment Inquiry, 1973-74; U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, 1981-86; Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Justice Department, 1986-88; Governor of Massachusetts...