Word: raying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because the software, though it costs millions, saves them even more. Shareholders adore the rich returns: $10,000 invested in Oracle five years ago would be worth $127,000 today. In the past year Ellison has signed deals with British Telecom, Intel and even Kellogg. With the help of Ray Lane--the president and coo who saved Oracle from fiscal shipwreck in 1991--Ellison has built one of the Valley's most reliable profit players...
...Silicon Valley neighbors Sun Microsystems and Netscape, which Ellison says may have the perfect NC interface with its browser. Inside the firm, coo Lane now runs day-to-day operations, leaving Ellison free to think big, strategic thoughts. The calculus is simple, according to Bobby Cameron of Forrester Research: "Ray Lane has his chair on the ground...
Astrophysicist William Purcell knew that if he looked at the center of the Milky Way, he would see what is known as antimatter: bizarre subatomic particles that resemble ordinary protons and electrons but carry an opposite charge. But when NASA controllers trained the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory on this core region and beamed the data back, Purcell saw something on his computer screen at Northwestern University that nobody could have predicted: a veritable colossus of antimatter, a vast fountain spewing out from the center of our galaxy and reaching trillions of miles into space...
...come out with yet another solid album. It's sort of like Michael Jordan scoring 30 points: unless he scores 50, is it really news? Still, Indigo Girls' pleasant new album, the Shaming of the Sun (Epic), represents a noteworthy step in the evolution of the pair, singer/songwriter/guitarists Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The Girls, who are both gay (but not a couple), became more open about their sexuality a few years ago, and on Sun their music seems to have come out as well. Their past albums were concerned, in an almost solipsistic way, with their interior lives...
...heartfelt conviction that it is wrong. The Bible teaches that wrong is wrong, but it also teaches that some things will result in greater public outcry than others. Sexuality is one of them. The extreme fringes of sexuality will always carry the most severe consequences. (THE REV.) WENDELL RAY First Baptist Church Gulf Breeze, Florida...