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Dates: during 2000-2009
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MAGGIE WILDEROTTER Technology Trailblazer After starting in accounts receivable at a software firm, she rose rapidly in the telecom industry and eventually built Wink Communications into the world's largest interactive-TV service. Now Wilderotter, 47, is the highest-ranking woman at Microsoft; she was just named senior VP of business strategy and given a mandate to increase sales to governments and schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People to Watch in International Business | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...Kyoto protocol to the International Criminal Court have led even NATO allies to view the Bush Administration as a delinquent global citizen, and pro-Western Arab governments make the argument that when the unconventionally-armed country defying U.N. resolutions is Israel, the U.S. responds with a nod and a wink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam's Last Chance | 9/11/2002 | See Source »

...beast, throwing him on three days rest again on Sunday would warrant a call from the Humane Society. Walsh himself said that he will not start his ace this weekend. That means that Harvard will be without its best arm against Princeton unless, as Walsh noted with a wink, rain forces a game to Monday. As of yesterday, the National Weather Service predicted “mostly cloudy” skies on Sunday, with “a chance of rain during the afternoon and night...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: Amazing Crimson Next Faces Princeton | 5/10/2002 | See Source »

...organization began to organize armed militias to wage the intifada, Arafat sought to bring those, too, under his wing - often to the chagrin of his security chiefs, whose own ability to maintain control was increasingly diluted by a plethora of unofficial armed formations operating with a nod and a wink (and regular cash infusions) from the PA leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Wants to Reform the Palestinian Authority? | 5/9/2002 | See Source »

...they just stopped coming," says the temple's custodian. We are standing at the back of the shrine where the view, which once stretched over the vipers' nesting grounds to the mountains beyond, is now blocked by a semiconductor plant. "Yes, it's a mystery," he says, with a wink and a nod toward the factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Penang Goes Forward to the Past | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

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