Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: So you won't agree to a settlement that restricts what new applications you can bundle into Windows...
Gates: I can't go down the path of saying what the settlement would be. All I'd say is that there are those key principles that I just mentioned...
Gates: In terms of discussing the details of a settlement, I can't do that. Our behavior has been totally fair. We're quite confident that the legal process will uphold our view...
...Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced that Massachusetts has 150,000 fewer smokers than it did six years ago. Even the rate of teens who are starting to smoke is down slightly. These results, as well as extensive lobbying pressure, have convinced Governor A. Paul Celucci that the tobacco settlement in the budget should be allocated as planned, including $6.7 million to smoking-cessation programs...
...important to recognize that today's filing is just one step in an ongoing legal process that has many steps remaining," Gates declared. Under questioning, he again professed to be interested in a settlement--but quickly veered off into a monologue about the importance of building "great software" and maintaining the freedom to innovate. If anyone in the audience was confused into thinking Gates was giving in, Microsoft general counsel Bill Neukom stepped up next to explain what his boss was really saying. No, the company had no intention of backing down. "We are in it," he said...