Word: yang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheerful desktop icons, and Bill Gates, the brilliant and ruthless competitor whose Microsoft tamed the world with Windows after sneaking in behind those scary columns of DOS code. Their battle for control of the home computer suggested '60s barricades re-erected for the corporate '80s: Yin vs. Yang. Luke vs. Vader. Kennedy vs. Nixon. Jeans vs. Pinstripes. Art vs. Commerce...
...world. So, too, apparently are the producers of other controversial web sites, such as The Apple Daily, whose columnist and self-professed pimp "Fat Dragon" routinely ridicules Chinese politicians. Other web producers are lying low, fearful of the consequences. In January, Ming Pao Daily News reporter Xi Yang was released after spending nearly three years in prison for reporting on China's interest rate fluctuations, or "stealing state secrets" according to Beijing. Watching China build the world's biggest firewall to sterilize the Internet for its people makes many in Hong Kong worry about how long they can expect...
High-tech wunderkinder, such as Yahoo! Web-search founders Jerry Yang, 28, and David Filo, 31, are role models because of their affinity for risk and their entrepreneurial spirit. Some advertisers have caught on. Two years ago Prudential replaced its longtime slogan "Get a Piece of the Rock," with the more enterprising "Be Your Own Rock." As the Dream study describes it, this is the new "generation on the make." While interest in corporate careers is sliding, business schools have expanded their courses in entrepreneurialism. A recent University of Michigan study found that 25-to-34-year-olds are trying...
When he is discussing dignity and honor, he is perfectly still. The words come rushed and easy, as if he thinks of this a lot, but he doesn't talk about it much. It's a radical departure from the language of the kid who "basically talks yang and makes a lot of jokes" when he hangs...
...plaintiff. (Federal law limits awards to $50,000 for an employee in a company of 100 or fewer and $300,000 for a company of 500 or more, as well as money for back pay and legal fees.) "It was a wacky decision," says PG&E lawyer Kenneth Yang, yet he acknowledges that the law has not caused the company any "undue hardship...