Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone who watches and engages in debates in Washington in 1998, it is a standard to which I still aspire," he says...
...Robert Kennedy was the last Americanpolitician who could campaign in the urban centersand the suburbs and say the same thing," Bendersays. "He was the last politician who coulddeliver the same message everywhere and have itheard. It is the standard people use as the bar toaspire...
...solves some of photography's most basic problems, including getting the film to thread through the camera correctly (the No. 1 picture-taking pitfall according to industry surveys). With APS cameras, film cartridges are simply dropped in and thread themselves. You also get a choice of three picture sizes (standard, wide and panoramic), and the prints come back with a visual index sheet to make finding pictures and ordering reprints easier...
...standard film has no such lofty ambitions. It takes its audience on a familiar ride. Actors pretend to be heroes or villains doing amazing or funny things. And we, in an implied compact with the filmmakers, pretend it's real. In The Truman Show the rules are more complicated. We are watching a movie that purports to be a TV show and that we (along with everyone else but Truman) know is fake. Occasionally we watch "viewers" of the show, in their home or a bar, reacting to some dramatic moment. And at times we watch Christof and his crew...
...antitrust officials atwitter, seeking to demonopolize the company. Their effort is not to be taken lightly. The Internet, which officials want to keep wide open for competition, is a treasure that merits their watchful eye. And while few are talking about busting up Microsoft--like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil early this century or AT&T in 1984--things could yet escalate to that point...