Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Committee on Aging this week. The panel has summoned two insiders--a former California nursing-home nurse and a current nursing-home inspector for the state--to offer firsthand accounts of the horrors. The women--called "Clara B." and "Florence N." by the committee--will speak from behind a screen to shield them from retaliation by the powerful nursing-home industry and the agency that provides care to California's elderly...
Ballmer will have plenty of other matters on his screen, however. Personal computer sales are on a downward trend, and the home and small-office/home-office markets, both hailed as the next wave in computing, are stagnant. In addition, that wild and wacky Internet, with its open standards, could potentially topple Microsoft's apple cart, eliminating the need for a Microsoft OS on every desktop...
...three investigators worked those numbers late into the night, bending over their computers as a neon light buzzed overhead and their forgotten dinner--a pineapple-and-bacon pizza--grew rubbery and congealed. Over the course of hours, graphs and tables flashed on the screen and streamed from the printer in a growing pile. Finally, Breuer was ready to ask the computer his final questions...
...with cattle and the appearance of the disease? Again, no. At last, Kennedy tap-tapped the commands asking the computer about a link between Alpine tap water and E. coli. The researchers leaned in as the question was processed and the numbers were tallied. After a long moment, the screen began to fill with numbers...
Katie Holmes flashes her luminous, kitten-on-a-pillow smile and says, "It's a wonderful thing to be 19 and in show business right now." Ain't it, though? Last year she and her mom made a video screen test in the rec room of their Toledo, Ohio, home and sent it to Kevin Williamson, the Scream screenwriter, who needed an ingenue for his new TV series, Dawson's Creek. "I thought it would be just a sweet attempt," he says, "but Katie was amazing. At first she couldn't come meet us because she was in a high...