Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly seems a difficult task. Between various versions of Windows and DOS, Microsoft controls 97% of the market for PC operating systems. Still, Redmond bristles at any use of the M word. "Monopoly," says Rule, "is not the same as market share." Why not? Because some breakthrough innovation could turn this fast-moving industry upside-down in a heartbeat, or so the theory goes. But in the tradition-bound setting of a courtroom, such Clintonesque semantics--"It depends on what you mean by monopoly"--may be a tough act to swallow. David Boies, the Justice Department's chief counsel...
...Minutes II have to scramble for the same kinds of promotable stories that Dateline and 20/20 go after? "I would not like to see anything with the 60 Minutes name involved in the game of sweeps-week roulette," warns Hewitt. Will part-time stars like Rose and Rather turn out to be mere window dressing? And with only one of the four correspondents picked so far under 55 years of age (Mabrey is 42), CBS isn't exactly solving one rap against 60 Minutes: its older-skewing audience. In the cold, cruel Nielsen world, even a high-minded newsmagazine...
NAME: SLY "AND THE FAMILY" STALLONE AGE: 52 OCCUPATION: Monosyllabic actor BEST PUNCH: Angered neighbors, including Madonna, by considering an offer to turn his $25 million Miami home into a luxurious 200-room hotel...
...child-development experts particular cause for worry. Without meaningful intervention before they reach school age, neglected or abused children may struggle with learning for the rest of their lives. "If they're not getting the nurturing they need in the earliest years, their synaptic development shuts down, which in turn shuts down the foundations for learning and being a human being," says Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a nonprofit group focusing on the importance of the first three years of life...
...Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Scandinavia provides more than half the world's fur pelts. Ten years ago, Saga opened its International Design Center. Since then it has been inviting established designers as well as hot young ones to an all-expenses-paid five-day getaway at its turn-of-the-century thatched mansion in the green hills and yellow fields of Sandbjerg, north of Copenhagen. It has also targeted fashion schools, taking trunkloads of furs to final-year students at schools like London's influential Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design. The aim of both programs...