Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...INTERNET HAS BEEN SPRINGING more leaks than a rusty steam pipe lately, and nobody has been feeling the heat more than Netscape Communications. The Mountain View, California, start-up commands more than 70% of the market for software that enables networkers to "browse" the World Wide Web--the fast-growing multimedia portion of the Internet. Having promised it would make the Net safe for business--including home banking and online creditcard shopping--Netscape has become a fat target for anybody with the time or skill to prove that it hasn't achieved that goal. Just last month the company...
...time the contingent of officials and statesmen arrive to bestow honors on the bank for excellent management and strong returns, the cast is sprawled around the room, too exhausted to carry out their threats to kill one another, and irritated entirely to madness. The final speeches sputter out of steam, dragging on longer than necessary...
...protected enclave of Srebrenica and left the West's Bosnia policy a shambles, Clinton summoned several top aides, including two senior advisers from the National Security Council, to the South Lawn. As they stood by in suits, Clinton, in color-coordinated golf togs, proceeded to "blow off steam on Bosnia," according to one participant, while he moved around the green with a bag of balls, a putter and a pair of wedges. "It's hard to justify our diplomacy when our diplomacy isn't showing much," he complained loudly. Within days, the White House announced his decision to press...
...against? The Republicans are giving them lots of things to be angry and frustrated about." Recent polls show citizens believe two to one that the country is on "the wrong track." Says Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster who worked for Perot in 1992: While "the independent movement is gaining steam, particularly among [baby] boomers . they are still there, unassimilated...
Along Mt. Auburn Street, the "Gold Coast" dorms catered to the lifestyles of the children of the rich and famous Claverly Hall, now annexed housing, and Randolph and Westmorely Halls, which later became part of Adams House, were the late-nineteenth century lap of luxury: spacious rooms, private baths, steam heat...