Word: tireless
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Perhaps the most intriguing character to ID is Andy Caspar, the 26-year-old protagonist whose exit interview ("You understand that your memory ... is also the property of Omega Logic?") opens the book. His tireless idealism is the catalyst that creates the low-cost alternative to Omega's overpriced computers. In the end, Omega is forced to hire Caspar back to lead the company's Internet effort. Does the name of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs--whose public grudge against his old firm disappeared as soon as he was rehired to provide Apple with a badly needed Internet-friendly operating...
DIED. HERB CAEN, 80, classic newspaper columnist; in San Francisco. In the brightly written rat-a-tat of the daily column he produced for 58 years, mostly in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Pulitzer-prizewinning Caen was raconteur, funnyman, tipster, nightclubber, friend of the powerful and tireless chronicler of "Baghdad by the Bay," the city he loved and that loved him back...
...suddenly, do other companies all over the American map. As the new year begins, these superhot job spots are far more than exceptions to the still unrelenting rule of frequent downsizing. They reflect a tireless expansion and fundamental shifts in the workplace that have created more than 11 million new jobs since 1991, slashed unemployment to 5.3% and turned the country into the world's hottest job machine. The same forces that have brought high-tech labor shortages to regions from Silicon Valley to Boston's Route 128 corridor are fast transforming Rocky Mountain states from energy, ranching and mining...
...number." Together with Paul Allen, they formed the official-sounding Lakeside Programmers Group and got a job writing a payroll system for a local firm. A furious argument, the first of many, ensued when Allen tried to take over the work himself. But he soon realized he needed the tireless Gates back to do the coding. "O.K., but I'm in charge," Gates told him, "and I'll get used to being in charge, and it'll be hard to deal with me from now on unless I'm in charge." He was right...
...life into a campaign that for too long just kept going and going, this TV spot exists as a sly parody of its predecessors. Assuming the tone of a Discovery-channel documentary, the new ad presents a team of researchers who've devoted their lives to finding the tireless rabbit. Alas, all they unearth is a woodchuck...