Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...universal praise. Silicon Valley insiders, reports a wag, "can't decide whether it looks like a toilet seat or a Hello Kitty bag." But even its detractors would have to agree that it's a striking departure for the home-computer market--and quite possibly a landmark in the quest Jobs began when he founded Apple two decades ago. "I remember when he pulled the white sheet off the first Mac in '84," says Tim Bajarin, a longtime Apple watcher. "Even then, he was going to create the 'computer for Everyman...
Rotberg said he recently finished working with Neelan on the book Creating Peace in Sri Lanka, based on their 1997 conference. Neelan's contribution to the book was a chapter called "The Devolution and the Elusive Quest for Peace in Sri Lanka...
...worried about how to have a meaningful life in a fishbowl, but John would lead a life that required he bat away the paparazzi while Caroline would have a life in which she could walk her children to school and answer her own phone. She would even intellectualize the quest for privacy in a book on the First Amendment, In Our Defense. While John had an effervescent star quality, a glamour about him and his stylish wife, Caroline was incandescent, without a trace of glitz, but glowing from within. She was entirely free of the resentment that attaches...
...aftermath of a shooting spree by a World Church of the Creator member, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said last week he is no longer willing to represent the organization's leader, Matthew F. Hale, in his quest for bar membership...
...most Harvard students, it seemed that summer was just another time to get a leg up on the competition. Instead of a relaxing break at the beach, most of my fellow students were planning a harried schedule full of commutes, overtimes and abbreviated weekends. And when I began my quest to find a summer job, I pledged to keep my summer as relaxing as possible, especially after a year in the pressure cooker known as Harvard University...