Word: steven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Macintosh computer has never lacked for enthusiasts ready to paint the machine with cosmic significance. More than any other personal computer, the Mac comes wrapped in hype, most of it directly traceable to Steven Jobs, former chairman of Apple. He loved to tell his designers that the computer they were building -- with its icons, its pull-down menus and its mouse -- would not only change the world, but also "put a dent in the universe." As if to hammer his point home to the rest of America, Jobs launched the new machine in January 1984 with the famously melodramatic commercial...
...Macintosh was the crucial step, the turning point," writes Steven Levy in a new book, Insanely Great (Viking; $20.95), published to commemorate the machine's 10th anniversary. (The title comes from Jobs' typically hyperbolic claim for how great the Mac would be.) Levy, the author of Hackers and a columnist for Macworld magazine, believes the Mac set in motion a subtle intellectual process that is changing the way people think about information and, ultimately, thought itself. "In terms of our relationship with information," he writes, "Macintosh changed everything...
...speech is being sponsored by the Steven J.Cohn Fund of Hillel, the Consulate General ofIsrael and the Boston Metropolitan Hillel,according to flyers posted Thursday
...does repeatedly)), I have a slugging percentage of about .600," he says. "For every 10 things I've brought to market, six of them will end up in homes." Some have unusual venues. He is developing two shows for PBS: a 13-week comedy series starring offbeat stage performer Steven Banks, and Under New Management, a Coronation Street-style serial with topical humor, set in a New Orleans restaurant-bar. For CBS he is producing Nashville X's and O's, a nighttime soap about the lives of ex-wives of country singers. ABC has ordered The Gospel According...
...again, Anderson persisted, diplomatically adding to and revising his telephone-book-size protocols to meet RAC demands. In 1989 he finally won approval for a nontherapeutic test that would transfer bacterial genes into immune cells of terminal cancer patients to serve as markers in trials conducted by Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute. Those experiments established the safety of using retroviral vectors...