Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plenty of finger pointing all around--selfish players, ill-prepared assistant coaches, the Fates--but the blame fell to Shula. Never mind the Don Shula Expressway, the Don Shula Steak House, Don Shula's Hotel and Golf Club. In three separate polls in the Miami Herald, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and the Palm Beach Post, 10,000 of a combined 13,000 fans voted in favor of Shula's dismissal...
...measure of time is a convention. We decide when our day begins--half a solar period past the sun's zenith (not counting daylight savings time). And we decide when our year begins. It's our excitement at our own conventions that annually brings half a million of us to worship drunkenly the descent of a shining ball in Times Square...
...midseason comedies making their debuts next week try to be something different. Both NBC's Third Rock from the Sun (Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m., est) and ABC's Champs (Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m.) feature characters well into their 40s who don't sip lattes or sport cute haircuts. Unfortunately, both shows evince a fondness for tackling gender-war issues with a Norman Lear-like heavy hand...
...trying to wrap Microsoft's long arms around it. He launched the Microsoft Network and--over the objections of America Online, CompuServe and the U.S. Justice Department--bundled it with Internet-access software in Windows 95. He dropped his resistance to a number of de facto Internet standards, including Sun Microsystem's Java. Meanwhile, he began securing high-profile content to put on his own network, luring commentator Michael Kinsley from cnn to start an online political magazine and purchasing the Bettmann Archives, one of the world's greatest collections of historical photographs. Last week he appeared in an electronic...
...JAVA Neither island nor coffee, this miniaturized programming language from Sun Microsystems can add sparkle and interactivity to the most sluggish home page on the World Wide Web, the fastest growing part of the Internet. Rivals--IBM, Microsoft and even Netscape--have all agreed to adopt it as a kind of Esperanto...