Word: patterning
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...That such a dispensation is even newsworthy illustrates the kind of control that Microsoft has been accused of exerting in the past -- and apparently continues to, for all its denials -- and its belated concession follows the company's pattern of giving up as little as possible as late as possible. But this apparent loosening gives only a narrow margin of leeway and actually invites scrutiny of other Redmond customs --and Gateway's too -- as other contractual restrictions close in to fill the vacuum: Gateway is making this option available only to subscribers to its Internet service, because so many other...
...Holloway Johnson had rejected Ginsburg's claim that Starr was obliged to honor a blanket-immunity deal that would have guaranteed her never having to get used to prison food. Lewinsky represents Starr's best chance to nail down a case of obstruction of justice against the President, a pattern of persuading associates to keep his secrets to themselves...
There was a pattern to her madness, according to him. Each time he refused her push for reconciliation, she filed abuse claims. If she was ever bruised, he says, it was from one of the several plastic surgeries she underwent to feed her vanity and draw ogles at the tony Main Line gym where she worked out almost daily, a spandex emporium for the young and the restless. He can give you the dates too, for the nose job, the eye job, the breast job, the chemical peels...
...something unnerving about Viagra too, not so much on the face of it (the drug's merits appear to be manifold; doctors think it might even improve the sexual response of postmenopausal women) but in the broader philosophical implications. Is sexuality, like the state of happiness or male-pattern baldness, just one more hitherto mysterious and profound area of human-beingness that can be pharmaceutically manipulated, like any other fathomable construct of enzymes and receptors? Another looming question: Since Viagra is taken--at prices ranging from $8 to $12 a pop--not on a day-in, day-out basis...
GOOD HAIR DAYS With as many as 50% of the American men who are 50 or older scratching their heads over male-pattern baldness, Propecia, made by Merck (1997 sales: $23.6 billion), is the first pill that aims to grow back hair. The company says two-thirds of the men who took Propecia in clinical trials sprouted natural-looking hair. Sales of the drug, which Merck launched in January, could approach $750 million by 2000. One rare (less than 2%) side effect: depressed libido. Propecia and Viagra cocktails, anyone...