Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this will matter only if Net surfers are still using Netscape software when that day arrives. And while Netscape has a dominant market share these days, the company has been seeing a little more of Microsoft's shadow than Bark likes. "We have enormous appreciation, admiration and fear [of Microsoft]," he says. "But like I tell people: I love my brothers, but I don't let them eat my supper...
...having a perfectly good earthquake, the folks on the West Coast might at least notice. A new study reveals, however, that in 1992, what should have been a china-smashing 4.8 Richter-scale quake hit central California, and yet nobody felt a thing. The explanation for the odd shadow-quake was published last week in the journal Nature and may help improve science's understanding of earthquakes in general...
...organizers of the Games were stranded in a terrible position, between denying the pleasure that was their reason for being here and denying the pain that was now an insoluble fact. To continue with the Games in the shadow of death was to hold a party where everyone wore black. Yet to give up on the Centennial Olympics was to concede victory to the very forces that would darken us. The city was stuck like a runaway in a tunnel of fire...
...composer, of those and dozens of other hallmarks of the Ellington sound was a dapper, diminutive musicians' musician named Billy Strayhorn. From 1938 until his death of cancer in 1967, Strayhorn was Ellington's artistic alter ego--bolstered and publicly praised by the Duke but working always in his shadow, less an employee than a member of his extended household...
Thus began the irresistible rise of Gwyneth Paltrow. At 23, the eldest child of Danner and TV producer Bruce Paltrow (The White Shadow, St. Elsewhere) has two blossoming careers: on screen, as the most beguiling actress of her young generation; and in the tabloids, as that cheerfully ravishing wraith on the arm of Hollywood dream supreme Brad Pitt...