Word: reno
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JANET RENO Just the facts, ma'am. A.G. toughs it out before a bunch of sound-bite-seeking pols. She stands...
...WEEK BEGAN with a bang and ended with a bear. The explosion was the sound of the Justice Department?s first salvo against Microsoft?s mighty monopoly. As Janet Reno and her trusty second-in-command Joel Klein stormed the ramparts of Redmond in search of the secrets of Internet Explorer 4, their mightiest weapon was the threat of a million-dollar-a-day fine if Bill Gates didn?t play nice...
...Generalissimo worried? Gates said nothing, but perhaps his reply should have been along the lines of the famous newspaper scene in Citizen Kane: ?That?s right, Ms. Reno. I lost a million dollars today. I expect to lose a million dollars tomorrow. And the day after that, and the day after that. You know, at a million dollars a day, I?ll have to close Microsoft in ... three hundred thousand years...
However, the major flaw of Waco: The Rules of Engagement is its failure to extend its blame past the ATF. The film concentrates on the ATF to the almost complete exclusion of any other influences. There are few glimpses or references to Attorney General Janet Reno, and even fewer to President Clinton. What role, positive or negative, did these figures have in the conflict? The film fails to provide an adequate answer...
Claiming that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Attorney General Janet Reno stunned the software industry Monday afternoon by asking a federal court to hold the company in contempt for forcing PC makers to license it's browser, Internet Explorer, along with its desktop software, Windows '95. Reno also asked that Microsoft pay a fine of $1 million a day until the company changed its distribution practices. "Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly," Reno told reporters...