Word: punches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company's name since 1924--hanging THINK signs everywhere, leading employee sing-alongs (corporate anthem: Hail to IBM) and dictating everything from office attire (white shirt, dark suit) to policies on smoking and drinking (forbidden on the job and strongly discouraged off it). IBM dominated the market for punch-card tabulators--forerunners of computers that performed such tasks as running payrolls and collating census data...
...fact, Harvard is not even leading the Ivypack as it makes this move. Cornell Universitybeat Daniel and company to the punch over a yearago, having raised their payout nearly 13 percentin 1997 and a whopping 35 percent this year...
...Justice Department begins Week Six of its hard-hitting case, Microsoft's blithe confidence is starting to resemble a room-size mainframe computer that operates on punch cards: it's more than a little out of date. Executives from Intel, Apple and other high-tech leaders have been parading into federal court in Washington with tales of being bullied, bloodied and browbeaten by Microsoft. Even onetime skeptics among the experts following the case are starting to ask, What if the government actually wins this thing...
...local bar was stopped by the bartender from consuming more alcohol. The patron then became upset and knocked a pair of glasses off his table. The suspect's friend confronted him in the bar's parking lot and tried to take his keys. The suspect tried to punch his friend and then fled...
...Zelda is a great video game. At this moment, for instance, I'm at Lake Hylia in the mythical land of Hyrule. Imagine being inside an animated Japanese wood-block print. The sun is going down (it really is--you can track it across the sky), causing colors to punch out and deepen. I'm fly-fishing in peerless blue water--yellow sunlight bounces off the surface--and fat lunkers lurk below. When one at last strikes at the red-feathered lure, lake-floor sediment swirls like a dust cloud...