Word: steve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defenders say she is a warm, upbeat motivator and an impassioned Democrat. "She works with a sense of urgency, and she links the investment with the goals," says former party chairman Steve Grossman. "It requires an almost crazy level of commitment," says 1997 finance chairman Alan Solomont, "and Beth has that." The stakes for 2000 are high, with a chance to regain control of the House, along with the presidential race. The D.N.C. has spent two years recovering from the 1996 fund-raising scandals; its debt soared to more than $16 million, mostly because of legal fees. (The debt...
...work over some odd machines in a crowded garage when a man in a suit walks in out of the California sunshine to offer them a big, fat pile of cash. The group's leader takes offense at this gauche tender of venture capital; Apple Computer's mission, Steve Jobs explains, is "practically spiritual." And then he takes the money...
...smart new movie about the birth of the PC industry, comes complete with a similar backdoor irony. Pirates' writer-director Martyn Burke (who co-wrote HBO's caustic The Pentagon Wars) plants his story in the fertile ground of the baby boomers' art-vs.-commerce conundrum. "Steve Jobs' garage is the starting point of an entire culture," Burke says. "It got going in the early '70s, when the campuses were being occupied by antiwar protesters, but these guys--Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak--were the ones who really overthrew the Establishment. And then they became everything the counterculture...
...Steve's Ice Cream became the Cahaly's first tenant--until the ice cream chain's owners decided to sell the Harvard Square branch in 1996. The Cahalys then fought a now-infamous battle with the Harvard Square Defense Fund (HSDF) to bring in another Starbucks to the Square...
...HSDF held up the transition of 31 Church St. from Steve's Ice Cream to its current Starbucks incarnation for nearly a year when it appealed an unanimous zoning board decision in February1996 to allow the coffee purveyor to move into thelower floor of the building...