Word: tamperers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft be found to have transgressed antitrust law. The appropriate solution? Not suprisingly, Barksdale wants the court to forever split Windows from Internet Explorer, making the bundling of the two illegal. This is, however, little more than a pipe dream -- not only have antitrust judges been historically reluctant to tamper in product design, but the court of appeals ruled last June that the Windows/IE package seems to be "a genuine integration." Netscape's chief is quite a showman -- and there's plenty of smoke and mirrors involved...
...fair-minded jurors--to announce pre-emptively that they wouldn't vote to convict Clinton if he were impeached. That brought a dark warning from the sage of the Senate, Robert Byrd of West Virginia: "I would suggest by way of friendly advice to the White House: Don't tamper with the jury...
...coming up on the new millennium. It's time to tamper with things," says Christian McBride, a 27-year-old bass player who has recorded with everyone from Betty Carter to Diana Krall. A Family Affair (Verve), his third album as a leader, was released last summer. It includes some smart electric tunes (though listeners who actually lived through the 1970s may not be eager to reacquaint themselves with the sound of Moog synthesizers) but reaches its peak with an acoustic, rhythmically virtuosic version of the Sly Stone title song that somehow manages to swing while also suggesting the original...
Despite Kenneth Starr's prodigious output, important and unanswered questions remain: Did the President obstruct justice? Did he use White House staff to cover up his affair and his lies about it? Did he tamper with witnesses...
Washington's promises that it will not tamper with Taiwan's future by signing a new U.S.-China communique have not reassured Taipei. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has already responded to Chinese demands with a policy statement nicknamed "the three nos": that is, the U.S. will not support a two-China policy, nor Taiwan's independence, nor Taiwan's membership in the U.N. These are the points that China wants Clinton to write down and sign...