Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Obviously, Harvard exists as a teaching and research institution and it wasn't founded to merely create jobs in Cambridge. But if you take one of the many spokes of the wheel out, it would not be as effective," Williams says. "We can't just say Harvard exists purely as a teaching and research organization, but also as an employer, a landlord and a neighbor...
...task for its strong-arm operating-system tactics. Over in California, larger rival Sun Microsystems wants to save its Java programming language from Microsoft "pollution." And oh, yeah, there's the small matter of the antitrust trial, resuming Tuesday in Washington, where Justice Department lawyers are set to wheel out their biggest gun yet, an executive from IBM, the first computer manufacturer to testify against the software titan...
Accessibility has always been part of the marketing plan, and you can begin to see the simple genius of it. These are souped-up replicas of real Pontiacs, Fords and Chevys--not open-wheel, Indy-type cars--and nearly everyone in America has a car. Nearly everyone has driven too fast too. At a NASCAR race, you can meet someone who gets paid stupid money to drive too fast. And chances are, he won't cry about his multimillion-dollar contract or go on strike, both of which have turned off fans of other sports. If a NASCAR driver doesn...
...attend Sunday services in a makeshift chapel near the pits. Gordon and his wife Brooke, a former Miss Winston, are often the first two people at Saturday-night Bible study. On race day she'll give him a verse from Scripture, and he'll tape it to his steering wheel...
Gordon sometimes wishes he'd gone to college or that he'd had time to make closer friends. But he's trading nothing because he has the only two things he wants: time with Brooke, who travels with him to every race, and time behind the wheel. "Even when I'm in a street car, driving down the road, it's like I'm in a race car. Not speedwise. It's just that I'm constantly paying total attention to everything around me, constantly clocking myself from one point to the next...