Word: worded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Texas Gov. George W. Bush, upon whom Republican hopes for victory in 2000 have quickly come to rest. Without mentioning him by name, Gore derided Bush as a cheap convert to centrist politics, dismissing Bush's brand of "compassionate conservatism" as empty sloganeering. "Compassion is more than a pretty word," Gore monotoned. "It is the highest of all disciplines...
Cheryl Tiegs made her mark posing in swimsuits before the camera. But these days the former supermodel is more likely to be found in a leotard and tights, in an environment in which the word pose takes on a new meaning. Tiegs, 51, along with a multitude of other celebrities, has discovered a magical fountain of youth in the deep breathing and graceful poses of yoga. For the past 18 months she has been attending three classes a week at Yogatopia in Brentwood, Calif...
...Right now, some non-Microsoft programmers say they are disadvantaged in writing applications that work on Windows because they don't have sufficient access to crucial Microsoft codes that mate the applications to the Windows software. As a result, they say, Microsoft has a big edge in selling lucrative word-processing, finance and other software to users of Windows, which runs more than 90% of the world's personal computers. The court could supervise the sharing of Microsoft's codes--known in techspeak as application-program interfaces, or APIs--and thereby ensure a level playing field for all programmers...
Gasps went up when Updike, receiving a lifetime-achievement medal, said the word Wolfe. He had just pricked A Man in Full in the New Yorker, calling its author "a talented, inventive, philosophical-minded journalist, coming into old age," who goes for broke on a novel that is just "entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form." At the podium, a smiling Updike read Wolfe's vivid if catty 1964 account of Updike receiving his first National Book Award: "He squinted at the light through his owl-eyed eyeglasses, then he ducked his head and his great thatchy...
...particularly impressed with the new Orb drive, which holds 2.2-gigabyte disks ($29). In January, Castlewood Systems Inc. will start shipping the first external Orb drives ($199). According to Syed Iftikar, the company's president, by this time next year, 5-gigabyte disks will be available. No word yet on a shoe-size supercomputer...