Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after month during the campaign, he kept repeating his four-point agenda. Once in office, he took the same approach and applied it to governing. In each legislative session, he set a few policy goals, outlined the principles by which he would judge success and gave other people the power to work out the details. "We can make decisions based on his principles, which are very clear," says Vance MacMahon, Bush's state policy director. "We don't have to run every decision up the flagpole...
Unless that happens, there's a lot more bad news yet to come Gates' way. Jackson still has to issue conclusions of law--expected early next year--in which he'll use these facts to decide if Microsoft used its monopoly power to violate the antitrust laws. Assuming he says yea--a near certainty considering Friday's findings--he can impose a remedy as far-reaching as the total dismemberment of the Gates empire. And more potential bad news: these findings of fact could be used by a host of competitors to bring their own civil antitrust actions against Microsoft...
...findings of fact that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson handed down were stunning in their breadth and their certainty: a blunt 412-paragraph j'accuse that nails Microsoft not only on the two most critical issues--that it has monopoly control over PC operating systems and that it wields that power in ways that harm American consumers--but on virtually every count brought against...
...ruling carefully lays out the factual basis for the major antitrust violations that seem certain to follow. And it paints an exceedingly dark portrait of one of America's most admired companies. The Microsoft of Judge Jackson's narrative is a deep-pocketed bully that uses "its prodigious market power and immense profits to harm" companies that presume to compete with it. And it presents Gates as a law-flouting monopolist who makes a "threat" to one rival considering getting into the software market and "berate[s]" and then "retaliates" against an executive from another company who dares to criticize...
...Junior middle hitter Katherine Hart, 1997's Ivy League Rookie of the Year, has also rebounded with a vengeance following an injury-plagued season last year. Possessing both power and poise, Hart was also named to last week's All-Tournament Team and has combined with Denniston and Jellison to form one of the most intimidating front lines in the Ivy League...