Word: requester
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which is it now -- the cool, smart Microsoft or the arrogant, petulant one? We'll find out Monday, when the software giant will seek a summary judgment to have all charges against it dismissed, and will request its trial be delayed until such a judgment is considered. Following a hearing today, the company said that evidence uncovered in discovery will rebut each of the five key points the DOJ and the states must prove to make their case...
...irony, says Hillenbrand, is that the request comes from Blair's Labor Party government -- during its years in opposition, the party had consistently promised to repeal the Official Secrets...
...donor countries for 30,000 tons of food for Sudan, its own estimates showed at least 35,000 tons would be needed. (Today the program says Sudan will need 15,000 tons a month.) But because of "donor fatigue" and the immense delivery problems, the program scaled back its request. Says an aid coordinator: "They defined the need according to their resources rather than the other way around...
...decades now, technologists have conjured futuristic visions of the "smart home," whose every appliance leaps to attention at your command: finding and dialing the number you request, diagnosing that ping in your car, displaying the recipe you choose, deciding which ingredients you're missing and ordering them for instant delivery from the grocer. What's more, each machine would borrow the computing power it needs on a moment-to-moment basis by accessing a wider network via wireless signal, without the annoyance of the endless peripherals yoked to today's desktop...
...your writer reduced to a bare minimum. I played an important role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington as the leader and chief organizer of the scores of actors who attended. Some months earlier, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, at Dr. King's request, I persuaded the leadership of one of the technical unions (IATSE) to meet with him, after explaining that IATSE not only barred blacks from membership but also accepted only the sons of its members into the union. I merely knocked on the door. Dr. King persuaded or shamed IATSE into...