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Word: supergeek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showed up. No, this is not about getting my house wired for 500 channels. It's about a heroic investor who plugs into the cable industry and single-handedly rescues one of the decade's most imperiled collections of stocks. Who is this new-age superhero? None other than Supergeek, a.k.a. the mild-mannered computer kingpin, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. Last week, after Gates agreed to pump $1 billion into Comcast Corp., Wall Street revalued the entire industry upward by tens of billions of dollars. A buyers' panic rippled through the cable world, and the Standard & Poor's index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABLE'S COOL AGAIN | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...wouldn't touch most cable stocks because of the debt. But then he's never dabbled much in technology stocks because he finds them confusing. Gates, on the other hand, knows a thing or two about the information highway. He may not have Buffett's stock-market acumen. But Supergeek owns the market for cybersense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABLE'S COOL AGAIN | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...shaping our future really be the soulless, joyless, socially retarded supergeek described in your story? The God who created the Bill Gates you described did so by reverse-engineering Star Trek's Mr. Spock and leaving out all the good parts. MICHAEL J. MITCHELL SR. Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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