Word: proving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...situation in Israel were not so tragic it would be comic, to the extent that the same characters constantly prove themselves incapable of making any progress. Hopefully, as talks conclude this week, tragedy will no longer be the order...
...embarrassed Republican party," says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney. "They won on education, and by hanging tough they've kept Republicans off the campaign trail for an extra week." And the budget, which even Democrat Robert Byrd called a "colossal monstrosity," looks to be loaded with pork -- which will prove immensely helpful to Democrats having trouble finding Bill Clinton's good side. Of course, victory for the Democrats in these midterms will likely be measured in how many seats they manage not to lose. But as Carney says, "Democrats are a lot better off than they were when negotiations started...
...future entered its second heart-stopping day. After the Justice Department pulled a courtroom coup with a withering display of what appeared to be perjurious statements from Bill Gates, Microsoft's lawyers had to backpedal hard in their own opening remarks. Top attorney Bill Neukom hoped to prove the excerpts were taken "dangerously and unreliably out of context" -- just like half the government's case, if Microsoft is to be believed...
Step One in the government's case, then, is to prove Microsoft's dominance. This hardly seems a difficult task. Between various versions of Windows and DOS, Microsoft controls 97% of the market for PC operating systems. Still, Redmond bristles at any use of the M word. "Monopoly," says Rule, "is not the same as market share." Why not? Because some breakthrough innovation could turn this fast-moving industry upside-down in a heartbeat, or so the theory goes. But in the tradition-bound setting of a courtroom, such Clintonesque semantics--"It depends on what you mean by monopoly...
...about educational software? So far, there's little hard evidence to prove it really works, even though Cook insists that the Reader Rabbit series helped his eldest son learn to read. But software doesn't have to be educational to be a good buy. Just Grandma and Me became a best seller among preschoolers even though it was little more than an interactive picture book. And parents who found Arthur's Teacher Trouble such a charming diversion from the tube will also like Arthur's Computer Adventure, which has reading and math games...