Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three weeks ago, it seemed as if Janet Reno may actually have found a chink in Microsoft's armor. The attorney general filed suit against the software behemoth, claiming they were bullying computer manufacturers into accepting Internet Explorer as part of the Windows 95 bundle ? in violation of a 1996 court order. But now the empire ? through its legal minions ? has struck back...
...visited the Net knows, is the software you use to navigate the Web. You fire it up, click your mouse and "go" to a site. Simple. But the newest version of Microsoft's browser--the one that for other reasons got Gates in such hot water with Janet Reno--reverses the relationship: the Web comes to you. After you subscribe to various Web publications by clicking on a box in the new browser, a software robot employed by Microsoft scurries around gathering the latest version of those Web pages and then, periodically, "pushes" the information down the Net to your...
Which, of course, it was. The Justice Department, said Reno, "won't tolerate any coercion by dominant companies in any way that distorts competition...
...Attorney General Janet Reno announced several weeks ago in a news conference that arrests of teenagers for violent crimes dropped 9.2 percent last year, the reversal of a steady increase in juvenile crime between 1987 and 1994. Since 1994, almost every state has passed legislation giving adult courts jurisdiction over certain crimes committed by juveniles and reducing the maximum age jurisdiction of juvenile courts. Many will undoubtedly attribute Reno's good news to these "adult time for adult crime" measures levied at young offenders rather than the recovery of our economy from recession. They will also use her announcement...
...Reno's report of a drop in juvenile crime is used to justify enactment of this legislation, her good news will spell misfortune for juvenile justice and the United States...