Word: soured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Sporkin's ruling, things seemed to turn sour for Microsoft. In late April the Justice Department's antitrust division sued to prevent the company from consummating the merger with Intuit, a deal that would have been the biggest acquisition in software history. Microsoft was scheduled to fight the suit in court on June 26, but two weeks ago, the company announced that it was dropping the merger, perhaps hoping it would get the government off its back. It may be too late for that. Bingaman says her department has become a kind of "Microsoft complaint center," and her staff...
Before last week, Washington insisted the ties with Beijing had actually steadied over recent months. "We try to maintain momentum, acknowledging that it will be a sweet and sour relationship," says Winston Lord, a former U.S. ambassador to Beijing and now Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, John Shattuck, describes China policy as "one of Clinton's underrated achievements...
...everyone is pleased. The Alabama Civil Liberties Union is weighing a legal challenge, while some Alabama businessmen fear the gangs will hurt the state's image and sour its business climate. Out on the roadside, chain gang member Sears sees things in more elemental terms. "They wouldn't allow you to chain five dogs together like this," he says. "We're moving backwards, not forwards...
Students will have to choose between more than just chickwiches and sweet and sour pork this week if they fill out the extensive survey that Harvard Dining Services (HDS) is currently conducting...
Nauman is good at a particular sort of put-on, a sour clownishness. He makes art so dumb that you can't guess whether its dumbness is genuine or feigned. When you see his spiral neon piece The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths, you assume it's irony, the cadaver of "inspirational" American romanticism-until you reflect that maybe that's what Nauman really thought, or what the vestigial romantic in him would have liked to think, but in no case can the mere neon sign deliver on its promise, and this frustration (one assumes...