Word: repeatable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing or two about quantum mechanics and taking history seriously. His highly educated, lightly characterized academic heroes get their soft hands roughed up battling 14th century knights rather than prehistoric raptors. Crichton has clearly learned from his best-selling history. The rest of us are condemned to repeat...
Gates: This question is a little bit of a repeat of what was in front of the courts last year. There was the question in the case of Windows 95 whether it was O.K. for us to add Internet support into that. Judge Jackson entered a preliminary injunction, and the appeals court couldn't have been more black-and-white in rejecting everything he had done there. [The appeals judges] went out of the way to state the general principle that the courts won't be involved in software design...
...finished product, the growth-factor protein itself. The advantage of gene therapy is that you have to do it only once; the gene will keep generating growth-factor protein. Using the protein by itself gives doctors a little more control. The disadvantage is that they may have to repeat the process, perhaps as frequently as every few months...
Thus in the U.S., Nintendo had all the Pokemon pieces to play with--a fully extended product line of games, toys, comic books and cards to appeal to boys and girls from ages 4 to 15. Says Tilden: "We decided to make an all-out effort to repeat the phenomenon in the Western world." An additional part of the strategy, says Kubo, was to hide its "Japan-ness." Nintendo of America and its Japanese partners brought in Al Kahn, who developed the Cabbage Patch doll, to help with toy merchandising. "There's a little bit of magic in what Nintendo...
...With Columbia taking a 7-0 lead early and Harvard's first drive ending on an interception in the Lion end zone, it looked as if this game might be a repeat of last year's nightmarish 24-0 loss in New York City. But then linebacker Isaiah Kacyvenski reversed Harvard's fortune when he picked off Columbia quarterback Mark Stoutenberg to set up the game-tying touchdown...