Word: steps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important to recognize that today's filing is just one step in an ongoing legal process that has many steps remaining," Gates declared. Under questioning, he again professed to be interested in a settlement--but quickly veered off into a monologue about the importance of building "great software" and maintaining the freedom to innovate. If anyone in the audience was confused into thinking Gates was giving in, Microsoft general counsel Bill Neukom stepped up next to explain what his boss was really saying. No, the company had no intention of backing down. "We are in it," he said...
Mind you, it's not the invasion of privacy that bothers me. My privacy is invaded in so many ways by so many different entities each day that I'm getting used to living in a glass house. When I step into a bank or an elevator and see a video camera overhead, I know I'm being recorded; the camera is usually right out there for me and everyone else to see. When I use my credit card to buy a meal, I know that American Express is recording that I've chalked up yet another overpriced expense-account...
...most people still think of--despite a highly unpopular renaming a few years ago--as Brontosaurus. The University of Oklahoma paleontologists who found the new species have named it, aptly, Sauroposeidon, after the Greek sea god. Poseidon was also in charge of earthquakes, and it's clear that every step this gargantuan creature took must have been literally seismic...
...three sites are secure and approved by TRUSTe, a nonprofit organization that certifies that websites meet certain privacy standards. iCanBuy takes the extra step of shielding young shoppers from merchants' marketing e-mail. And under a federal law made final last month, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, all sites requesting identifying information from children will soon have to meet strict guidelines. If the website operators intend to post or sell information from a child under 13, they will have to get written or oral parental consent, or use a new kind of digital identification technology...
...giving your kids a chance to spend instantaneously and impulsively," says Betsy Taylor, executive director of the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit group that offers tips for parenting in a commercial culture. "We're creating a generation of hyperconsumers, and this is just one more step toward that." In a survey conducted by Internet market-research firm Esearch, 49.7% of parents said children under 18 should not be allowed to make online purchases...