Word: quash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with its player roster. Take, for instance, MSN.com home page of the famously underperforming Microsoft Network. Later this year--if the Feds don't quash his online ambitions first--Bill Gates will launch Microsoft Start, MSN's reincarnation as a portal site. Microsoft's early Web efforts may have been feeble, but that doesn't mean the Gen-X millionaires at Yahoo and Excite won't be looking over their shoulder. "It's early in the game," says Yang. And Bill Gates tends to win in the late rounds...
...caller that the allegation would not hold up in public and that coming forward was not worth the certain resultant embarrassment of the accuser. At that moment, it seemed, the full weight of the election's outcome was on the shoulders of a loyal campaign strategist, trying to quash yet one more rumor in the hours before the polls opened. Stephanopoulos today is an analyst at ABC, the first in Clinton's circle (past or present) to suggest that the President's alleged actions might call for impeachment. Such an apparent about-face, from the behind-the-scenes commitment...
...subpoenaed its financial records. He's also charging that donations to the separate Paula Jones Legal Fund are being diverted to pay for her hair care, jewelry and clothing. Institute leaders call the subpoena an attempt to harass them for defending Jones, and have asked a federal judge to quash...
...Libya brought the case before the United Nations' highest judicial body, hoping it would quash once and for all U.S. and British attempts to get the suspects extradited...
...White House who was subpoenaed by Paula Jones' lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, after he received an anonymous tip that the President had made a grab for her. Willey's lawyer said she has no information relevant to Paula Jones or Bill Clinton, and he is filing a motion to quash the subpoena. But that hardly cooled the frenzy. Two "friends" of Willey's told reporters that something happened--they don't agree about what--one day when Willey visited the President at the Oval Office. And one of those sources peddled to a supermarket tabloid a stock photo of Willey with...