Word: window
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple," Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director, wrote on the official Google blog on Monday afternoon. "To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff - the pages, sites and applications that make up the Web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want...
...radical demonstrators, the simple presence of GOP delegates was enough to justify throwing bricks through storefronts and a delegate-bus window, lighting a Dumpster on fire, and damaging police cars. Police responded with force, using pepper spray, tear gas and, in some cases, rubber bullets while arresting nearly 300 demonstrators. At least 130 of those arrests were on felony charges, and the National Guard was called to quell violent demonstrators after the main march concluded...
...really wouldn't be where we are today without working with hES cells," said Melton, who is also the co-chair of the new Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard's first cross-school department. "They really provide a unique window into human development and human disease, and we really need those to progress our understanding...
...articles are clearly about curtailing the Party's all-pervasive reach and allowing the Chinese people some wiggle room. Anything that touches on limiting the power of the Party is extremely sensitive - and often very dangerous. So amid the euphoria of the Olympics, it was pretty gutsy of Southern Window to publish stories with headlines like, "When Administrative Power Obstructs the Law" and "Putting Boxing Gloves on Police Powers...
...Southern Window was effectively firing the opening salvo in a debate that started the minute the closing ceremony's last firework exploded: What now for China? Will Party hard-liners, emboldened by the world's timid response to their heavy-handed pre-Games crackdown on dissent, continue to tighten their grip on power? Or will the spirit of civic activism that arose from relief efforts after the May earthquake in Sichuan be revived? Could reform-minded Party officials - like those who approved the publication of Southern Window's special issue - gain ground in their drive to ease control over areas...