Word: realms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pronged effort: a Microsoft p.r. campaign to counter those famously snarly Gates videotapes, and a courtroom defense, begun in earnest last week, to fight the antitrust charges against the company. At the center of both is Microsoft's peculiar vision of the computer world and its place in that realm. Microsoft sincerely sees itself as a force for good--bringing PC users technical innovation and consumer value--and far from being a powerful monopoly, feels threatened on all sides. It's a radically different view from the government's, and the outcome of the antitrust suit may turn on whether...
...prime 4 1/2 decades ago was lewder. The song titles are self-explanatory: I Just Wanna Be with You, I Need Love, I'll Never Break Your Heart. Once in a while a kid may sing that he wants to be "your lover," but it's all within the realm of I Want to Hold Your Hand. As always, the groups are selling themselves as training boyfriends--sexy, crushable, but no Usher, say, who might use a swear word now and then or want to go too far too fast, if you catch our drift...
Last Thursday marked what may be Colombia's best chance to avert a hellish future. At the southern town of San Vicente del Caguan, inside the jungle realm of the biggest and fiercest Marxist guerrilla group--the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC)--the rebels and the government of President Andres Pastrana Arango began the country's third attempt at peace in 17 years. But the fiesta of tropical bands, stuffed pig and beer, attended by luminaries like Colombia's Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, couldn't rise above the jolting absence of the FARC's mysterious 68-year-old chief...
...four other women of varying ages. As an unknown MTV production assistant, Matenopoulos was chosen for the show to represent youth, a task she accomplished all too well with callow contributions that often left her colleagues dumbfounded. Matenopoulos is now pursuing other projects, including a TV sitcom, a realm in which her ability to be blond and look good in clothes may be more esteemed...
...first items on Grogan's agenda thisspring may be outside of the realm of federal andlocal lobbying, with media relations becoming moreimportant to Harvard...