Word: version
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to blame Big Oil. It has given us precious little to work with in the past couple of years, save the occasional assault on the environment. Indeed, the price of oil and gas just kept falling, as did industry profits. But Big Oil, the profitmongering version we love to lambaste, is back in form, courtesy of gasoline prices rising geyser-like to more than $2 per gal. in some places. "Gasoline prices are outrageous; my bill has gone up about $20 a month," complains Debra Davis, a San Francisco school-district employee, as she stares in dismay at prices...
...netless, id plans to ship 500,000 copies of a CD-ROM-based version to retail stores. Again, the bad boys at the always-lower-case id (for "in demand") have come up with a novel retail strategy. The disk will contain the first third of the game--and cost just $5. Want more? Call the toll-free number, pay $35 via credit card, and id will unlock the rest...
...ominous were the hosannas that the son, almost as soon as he was able, began denying his legacy, turning primogeniture into prodigality, forgoing the joys of the spirit for postwar America's version of pottage: alcohol and tobacco, motorcycles and rock 'n' roll. He fought so hard against being Billy's kid that he became a sort of Billy the Kid. It would be years before his flight from God, fueled by a fear that God would not accept his foibles, gave way to the fear of the emptiness without Him; years before he realized he could embrace his father...
...fact that an African-American author was writing about vivid characters with whom many black women could identify had the added effect of proving to booksellers that there is a sizable, previously ignored market for semisoapy black fiction--just as the $67 million gross for last year's film version of Exhale proved there is a sizable market for semisoapy black movies...
...would go out of business, and thousands of priceless works of art would have to be redone. I hope whoever finds the "real" Jesus first will be smart enough to forget about the discovery and let the rest of us continue believing in our own private and comfortably familiar version of the man. MICHAEL JANSSEN Melbourne, Australia...