Word: washed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joined the Audubon Society's Pilchuk chapter, named for a mountain near Everett, Wash., discovered a talent for tactics and alliances and soon became Pilchuk's paid director. Recently she has prowled the halls of Congress, wheelchair and all, for the Forest Water Alliance, a consortium of 21 environmental groups...
Calgary at Tampa Bay, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Edmonton at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Toronto at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Montreal at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Wash. at Anaheim...
...summer of 1981, IBM announced the PC that would break open the computer business and eventually marginalize Apple. Jobs took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal headlined "Welcome, IBM. Seriously." Shortly afterward, he flew a small entourage to Redmond, Wash., to tell Microsoft about the Mac and persuade the programmers to write for it. Bill Gates didn't need much prodding. He agreed to produce the software--and then promptly launched a copycat project that would become Microsoft Windows...
...home. Yet he also knew that people here wanted something different. Instead of a structured, ritualistic restaurant with codes and routine, he gave them a simple, casual and identifiable restaurant with friendly service, low prices, no waiting and no reservations. The system eulogized the sandwich--no tableware to wash. One goes to McDonald's to eat, not to dine...
Like giant vacuum cleaners, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and companies of their kind have been sucking up the brightest people in the world and shipping them to breeding grounds in places like Redmond, Wash. For the first time in history, large numbers of fertile geniuses are living in the same places. The Redmond offspring won't all be geniuses of course; someone has to marry the beautiful people in marketing. But many of the Redmond kids will be frighteningly smart mutants. There's no telling how far this evolutionary shortcut can go. Each generation of geniuses will be smarter...