Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months ago, rival Hewlett-Packard allied with Microsoft to push the software giant's Windows NT program into corporate servers, the machines that link large computer networks. In 1995 Digital had cut its own Microsoft deal, looking to the burgeoning NT market to fuel its growth. Instead, it is losing ground in a market already dominated by Intel, rather than Digital, chips...
Spontaneous celebrations broke out in Galveston and spread around the state--and thus the holiday of "Juneteenth" began. Traditionally, the date has been marked in Texas with parades, picnics, dances and other events; in 1979 state legislator Al Edwards led a successful push to make it an official state holiday. Juneteenth has also caught on elsewhere: celebrations are held in more than 30 states, and this year the holiday should have even more of a national presence. On April 10 the U.S. Senate approved a resolution sponsored by majority leader Trent Lott of Mississippi and minority leader Thomas Daschle...
...otherwise. Robert Cailliau of CERN, Berners-Lee's earliest collaborator on the project, describes the Web's prevailing top-down structure: "There's one point that puts the data out, and you're just a consumer." He finds this model--whose zenith is the coming wave of so-called push technology--an "absolute, utter disaster...
Welfare does not push people to be better but allows them to remain in a vicious circle of continuous struggle. DANA JOHNSON Sunnyvale, Calif...
...Dennis Ross abruptly changed course and held last minute talks with Yasser Arafat. The move came after Arafat refused to meet with Ross out of a growing frustration that the U.S. envoy was not taking an active enough role in talks. Palestinian negotiators have in fact for weeks been pushing President Clinton to dump Ross. "Palestinian officials . . . don't trust him," Arafat spokesman Marwan Kanafani told TIME last week. Palestinians say Ross has not pressed Netanyahu's government hard enough on the issue of new Israeli construction in the West Bank. Although the U.S. has strongly criticized Israeli building projects...