Word: pose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about Microsoft's plans to use Apple Computer to "undermine Sun," but now he can't remember sending the message and has no idea what he could have meant by it. And although Microsoft had two high-level negotiations in June 1995 with Netscape--the company that seemed to pose the greatest threat to Microsoft's dominance--Gates says he learned of them only last spring in an article in the Wall Street Journal...
While he lyricized the locale, Piano did not forego the practical aspects of architecture. Large urban areas pose complexities for any architect: There is a danger of slipping into a uniform design, ignoring the fact that cities draw life from the evolution of buildings over time. All told, the slides presented certainly showed a city center that avoided that danger, and mirrored the unpredictable and complex interactions of humanity. Built around a recently-opened piazza, the Potsdamer Platz as envisioned by Piano will be a meeting point that encompasses vast differences, where elements of the "sacred," like libraries, meet elements...
...refer not to the buckskin-clad host of The Howdy Doody Show, whose recent death would appear to pose an insurmountable liability to his candidacy, but to Bob Smith, U.S. Senator, who says he is leaning toward a long-shot presidential run. This Bob Smith is not just a Senator. He is a Senator from New Hampshire. And therein lies the key to the excitement his potential candidacy stirs in the reportorial breast...
Well, there was one detail--she and four other team members with college eligibility were not allowed to pose for the Wheaties...
When it comes time to choose a career, the majority of Harvard folk are unable to pose the crucial question to themselves: What can I do with my life that is existentially meaningful? The modern incarnation of Success (a frightfully narrow-minded and shortsighted beast, despite some superficial attractiveness) has seduced many, indoctrinating in them the deluded equation of material possession with existential significance. Hordes of people dedicate their lives to the ravenous chasing of money--a spiritually bankrupt plutolatry--as if money were anything other than a means to some end. Though earning money is necessary, especially in light...