Word: bootstrap
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Microsoft. The ruling that Microsoft is a monopoly could open the floodgates to civil suits by companies, and even consumers, who have been harmed by Microsoft's anticompetitive activities. Proving that a company is a monopoly is an onerous legal task, and private litigants may now be able to bootstrap their cases onto last week's findings...
...national bid. The specifics of that plan - $8 billion in new federal spending for use by charities and churches - are remarkably similar to those of the blueprint the President announced Monday. Even the idea of allowing religious groups to bid on government contracts to provide job training and other "bootstrap" services has been around for a while - thanks to Senator John Ashcroft, who insisted that just such a provision be inserted in the 1996 welfare reform bill...