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Although Intel and Microsoft still have close relationships with Big Blue, there is little love lost between IBM and its potent progeny. IBM had an ugly falling-out with former partner Microsoft over the future of personal-computer software. Microsoft developed the now famous disk operating system for the IBM-PC -- called DOS -- and later created the operating software for the next generation of IBM personal computers, the Personal System/2. When PS/2 and its operating system, OS/2, failed to catch on, a feud erupted over how the two companies would upgrade the system. Although they publicly patched things...
...vote, the Supreme Court last week rejected that argument. The decision will result in more activism by Operation Rescue. "God be praised," said leader Randall Terry. "The most potent weapon the child killers had against us was the illegal use of the federal judiciary." Pro-choice Representative Charles Schumer and Senator Edward Kennedy immediately proposed bills making it a federal crime to block abortion clinics...
...Perms," Jesse shares with us, "are, like, way out, history, '80s." A potent condemnation indeed...
...program of public "investment" and deficit reduction on which Clinton campaigned. "Bill didn't want a brain trust," a transition official remarked. "He needed a sales force -- and that's what he's got." Indeed, Clinton, the Washington "outsider," might be said to have created the capital's most potent lobbying firm: Bentsen, Panetta, Rubin & Altman...
...three eldest members of the team--junior Captain Ted Drury, senior Matt Mallgrave, senior Steve Flomenhoft--are all stars in their own right (Drury clearly being one of the brightest in the NCAA galaxy). The juniors remain the key to the potent defense. When using their heads and attacking the corners, Harvard's blue-line crew (in addition to junior forward Brian Farrell) can shut down any attack...