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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stepped in too late, using the feisty start-up as a graphic illustration of Microsoft's anticompetitive might. Exhibit A: the fastest-growing software company in history. Exhibit B: the same start-up less than four years later, crushed like a June bug on the windshield of a great truck screaming along the highway at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Netscape: Down For The Count? | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

Like love and marriage, the idea of creating a global car company is not new. Lee Iacocca, even as he scrambled to save Chrysler during the dark years of 1979-81, dreamed of creating what he called Global Motors, a fully integrated international car and truck builder and seller. Global Motors would be one of perhaps six to 12 similar consortiums that would be all that remained of the more than 30 car companies operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DAIMLER-CHRYSLER DEAL : Here Comes The Road Test | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...Redford to The Horse Whisperer, based on Nicholas Evans' best-selling, critically dissed novel about an uncannily simpatico wrangler. His patient ministrations are needed to restore psychological wholeness to Pilgrim and, more important, to Grace (Scarlett Johansson), the horse's adolescent rider, after a bloody confrontation with a truck on an icy road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ain't What He Used To Be | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...played not on the football team but in the band at half time. Even though he ran for virtually every class office (not generally a sign of hipness), he emulated Elvis Presley, the king of bad-boy coolness, and drove around in a pickup truck with AstroTurf in the back to cushion his real or imagined assignations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real American Dilemma | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...Angeles' ubiquitous TV newschoppers, Daniel Jones, 40, a Long Beach maintenance worker, acts out his made-for-TV theatrics. He has spread out a banner for the helicopters to see: HMOS ARE IN IT FOR THE MONEY!! LIVE FREE, LOVE SAFE OR DIE. And then, retreating to his pickup truck, he pets his dog, leaves it in the cab and sets the vehicle on fire. Partly aflame, Jones runs into the highway he has commandeered. Pulling off his burning pants, he picks up a shotgun, places its butt against a wall, bends his head to the barrel and pulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Many Eyes In The Sky? | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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