Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very much of a kind of community spirit which is involved in Islam and this was of course all formulated back in the seventh century, when trade was very simple and not at all well developed," said Hayes. "...There were abuses taking place which the prophet [Mohammed], himself a trader, observed and felt he could remedy...
...corporate manifestation of that warrior spirit is Oracle, the software-and-consulting giant Ellison has built over the past 20 years. Oracle enjoys a virtual hammerlock in the immensely profitable business of organizing and storing information in electronic databases. In the past fiscal year the firm squeezed more than $600 million in profits from revenues of $4.2 billion by helping firms like Pacific Bell and American Airlines track billing records and airline reservations. The company's market value is $28 billion--more than that of Time Warner or H.J. Heinz--and it has enjoyed better than a 30% annual growth...
Friendship, however, does little to distract Ellison from every billionaire's primary preoccupation: the man in the mirror. Just as Oracle reflects Ellison's warrior spirit, the company's future will mirror his dreams about where technology is headed. And his wonderment on that subject seems livelier than ever. "I'm endlessly curious as to how far I can push technology and how much technology can change our society," he says, an urgent note creeping into his voice. "All sorts of interesting questions need to be asked. Can Oracle become a more important company than Microsoft? I'm curious...
...move the vintage-cartoon cassettes off the video-store shelves. Warner Books has published Chuck Reducks, the second (after Chuck Amuck) memoir of Warner Bros.' cartoon glory years by its major double-domo, Chuck Jones. Turner Publishing, literary outlet for the owner of mgm cartoons, honors animation's wildest spirit with John Canemaker's handsome Tex Avery: The MGM Years, 1942-55. It is essentially a reprint of Pierre Lambert's original, one of four French books on Avery...
...author that humans are greater than the sum of their 75 trillion constituent parts, their cells. Some readers will see the miracle of mankind as proof that a Creator exists. Nuland does not. His surrogate for spiritual piety is awe and wonder at the mystery of the human spirit and the marvelous economy of the physiology that embodies...