Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...IAHC proposal, based on "a traditional set of institutions," does not satisfy some members of the Internet community, who have called for more decentralized control of the domain name system in keeping with the Internet's spirit of individualism, Keller says...
...less hostile IRS, it might be worth it. Tom Quigley, an IRS public-affairs officer, showed up at the Manhattan office with an IRS flag he had specially made for the occasion. "Actually, I made two and one was absconded--maybe to burn," he said. And then, remembering the spirit of the day, he added quickly, "Though it might look nice in a college dorm." It's not quite the adrenaline rush the Revenue boys got after bringing down Al Capone, but it's a start...
...past. Days after the Justice decision, spinmeisters in Redmond were dialing Washington State's congressional delegation to demand retaliatory action. Before last week's Senate hearing, Weber and Downey met privately with Judiciary Committee members, arguing that federal interference would stifle the high-tech industry's fabled spirit of innovation at the behest of a bunch of whining marketplace losers. A consulting outfit called the Strategic Alliance Group devised a clumsy plan to buff Microsoft's image by wooing consumer groups away from Nader's interventionist cabal, lobbying the six state attorneys general now looking into Microsoft and recruiting public...
That's the spirit. But it's only a start. The Microsoft battle won't be fully joined until corporate giants like banks, telephone and cable companies, and real estate interests start choosing up sides. If they decide that Gates is trying to take over desktop banking, local communications and other forms of commerce--kidnapping, in essence, their slice of tomorrow's digital pie--their considerable lobbying operations will pile into the fight...
DIED. EDDIE ARCARO, 81, masterly jockey whose style, spirit and heritage made him the Joe DiMaggio of his sport; in Miami. Only Arcaro has ridden two Triple Crown winners--Whirlaway (1941) and Citation...