Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are some who argue that Gates may be overreaching by taking on the Internet-that online services could become, as an America Online executive put it, "Microsoft's Vietnam." Dave Winer, president of a Silicon Valley software company called UserLand, sees the extraordinary growth of the Internet as a rebellion against Microsoft. "The users outfoxed us," he says. "While the software industry was following Bill Gates, the users went another way. They took control. And once the users take control, they never give it back...
...proclaimed that we had one foot through the door of a Golden Age. Recessions, if any, would be short and mild; John Maynard Keynes had shown us how to stop them. Lyndon Johnson never doubted that a growing economy would generate enough revenues to finance wars against communists in Vietnam and poverty at home-simultaneously. Civil-rights crusaders never considered the possibility that blacks would be educated and trained for good jobs that would fail to appear. Even hippies assumed they could drop out of an economy that would nonetheless go on supporting them in comfort, through some alchemy-usually...
Father took her to Vietnam at age 13 to show her the horrors of war; officiated at the Elizabeth Taylor-Larry Fortensky wedding
Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld '66 fought attempts to induct him into the Army during the Vietnam War, the Boston Herald reported yesterday...
...South Wind Changing by Ngoc Quang Huynh (Graywolf Press). A Vietnamese refugee to the U.S. who was a young student in Saigon when the war ended tells movingly of surviving a Marxist re-education camp and escaping Vietnam by boat. His adventures in the U.S. include earning a bachelor's degree at Bennington College and learning the rhythms of English well enough to write this haunting, oddly pastoral memoir. Even today, concerned that he may never see his parents in Vietnam, he writes, "I sat on the hill, surrounded by trees in their spring blossom, looking over the pond...