Word: restlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mildly blustery salesman's pose. But you don't call a sitting judge's writing's incoherent." Testimony in the trial was canceled for another day as defense lawyers tried to find other ways to get evidence about Fuhrman's alleged past misconduct on the job into court. The restless jurors, who haven't heard any testimony since Tuesday, won't be back in court until after Labor...
...totally pro these days. "He's an incredibly hard worker," says Nine Months' director Chris Columbus, who was impressed that Arnold could hold his own in improvising bits with Grant and Robin Williams for the film's hospital delivery-room scene. But in interviews he is constantly squirming, endlessly restless. He has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Ritalin might help control the symptoms, but he won't take the medicine, on the (unproven) theory that it could lead back to his drug addiction...
...Tshed the Baby Bells, ITT announced that it will divide itself into three companies. The move will split up a $25 billion business empire into three independent companies -- an insurer, an industrial products manufacturer and an entertainment company. The restructuring, saysTIME New York bureau chief John Moody, should placate restless stockholders by increasing the value of their shares. Under the plan, investors would receive one share in each of the three new companies for every share they now own. "We are convinced that this action will increase immediately and over time the value of the investment of ITT's shareholders...
None of which gives anyone at the Microsoft "campus" in Redmond, Washington, an excuse to relax. One of the most remarkable traits of Microsoft's corporate personality -- inherited directly from its restless chairman -- is its inability to sit still. What other companies see as wind at their back, Microsoft sees as turbulence from competitors catching up. "A revenue-generating franchise is the most fragile thing in the world," says Myhrvold, who, like Gates, is something of a professional worrier. "No matter how good your product, you are only 18 months away from failure...
...referring to a detached and wandering period in his young manhood, "years of being lost" on the American back roads, unable to define what he was looking for. Those years, those feelings are long gone, but other aspects of that young guy still cling to him; he remains restless, self-sufficient, with a large tolerance for his own company and an equally large indifference toward the good opinion of strangers. "I've always had the theory," he once said, "that actors who beg their audiences to like them ... are much worse off than actors who just...