Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woke up on Wednesday or Thursday--I can't remember which, it seems all a blur to me now--and it was 55 degrees outside. The sun blazed down upon the Quad for two beautifully warm days. The god's nose dripped and its coiffe sagged. It became Elvis again, then Lincoln in old age. On Friday it was an eight foot tall, five foot wide stump. By the weekend the putrid, freezer-burned grass emerged and all that was left of that magnificient thing was a perfectly circular patch of snow...
...FRANCISCO: Apple Computer chairman A.C. (Mike) Markkula, said on Tuesday that his company was not for sale. The comment was a reaction to a report in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, quoting "people familiar with the negotiations," that Apple would soon be acquired by Sun Microsystems, which makes workstations and Internet servers. Apple, the upstart company that made computers "user friendly" to millions of ordinary people has had an unenviable year, culminating with a loss of $69 million during the critical Christmas fourth quarter, while IBM was showing a 41 percent profit for the same period, that caused its stock...
...Acorn, a British computer maker, to help design a "networked computer" to his specifications, with a keyboard, a processor, some random-access memory, a communications link and not much else. Meanwhile, nearly every other major computer maker, from Apple to IBM, claims to have something similar in the works. Sun has teamed up with Japan's Fujitsu on a machine they are calling (not surprisingly) the "Java terminal...
...much would one of these babies cost? That depends on whom you ask. The price heard most often, from Ellison and others, is $500. Sun is less optimistic; company officials imagine their hot little Java boxes selling for somewhere between...
...sun rises upon diamond-scattered snowfields and glistens upon the lucent dragon's teeth. In the distance, three deer, roused from their shelter under pines, venture forth. They struggle and plunge undulously through the opulent white...