Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choose sides, customers now insist that computers work together in networks, regardless of the make or model. That has harmed Apple, since its operating software is not the most compatible. But it has been no blessing for IBM either, because its operating system is so common that customers often prefer to buy clone machines that work like IBM's but cost less. Customers have become more concerned about price than brand names or even high performance. That has turned things upside down for IBM and Apple, which find themselves struggling to make their products less distinctive and more compatible with...
...people in business, politics, the law and the press. Even police officials speak of los caballeros (gentlemen) of Cali in contrast to los hampones (hoodlums) of Medellin. "Cali gangs will kill you if they have to," says Robert Bryden, head of the DEA in New York. "But they prefer to use a lawyer...
...Cali imagination shines when it comes to the art of smuggling. Medellin brazenly shipped cocaine across borders in fast boats or light planes with extra fuel bladders. Calenos prefer the slow but safe merchant marine. The cartel has devised endless ways to hide contraband in commercial cargo and launder it through third countries. U.S. Customs can check perhaps 3% of the 9 million shipping containers that enter U.S. ports annually, making the odds very favorable for Cali...
Favoritism toward minorities is viewed differently, because they themselves are viewed differently. A nationwide survey last year by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center found three-fourths of white respondents agreeing that blacks were more likely than whites to prefer welfare to employment. Blacks were also thought likely to be lazy, violent and unintelligent. Hispanics were viewed in an equally negative light, and Asian Americans were seen as not much better. Obviously, if minority citizens are fundamentally flawed it is better to discriminate against them than against whites. Even if in the process a few deserving minorities...
...problem with in-line skates is that they go much faster -- up to 30 m.p.h. -- than roller skates and are difficult to stop. Most accidents involve first timers who have had little or no instruction. And though there is good protective gear available, a majority of bladers prefer to breeze along unpadded. The most feared injuries are to the head, yet few bladers will deign to don helmets. "They're hot inside and mess up your hair," says Neil Feineman, author of a how-to book for skaters entitled Wheel Excitement. Although he always wears a helmet in street traffic...