Word: chase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's one memo you don't want to be caught red-handed with, especially if your name is Bill Gates: "We need to continue our jihad next year." The author was Microsoft executive Brad Chase, the year was 1996, and the subject was the battle for the Internet browser market with rival Netscape. Given that Microsoft is now accused of throwing antitrust law to the wind in the single-minded pursuit of controlling that market, such language doesn't look too good. So, Mr. Gates, what exactly did Mr. Chase mean by jihad? "I think," the software boss told...
...restaurants and many other businesses in Vail and nearby communities. Just before the fires, the company won a bitter court battle to begin Category III, an Orwellian-sounding ski development on what is now 885 virgin acres of mountain forest. Environmentalists oppose the expansion because they think it will chase away the few remaining lynxes believed to be on the land, one of the species' last known habitats. Workers had begun clearing trees for Category III just days before the fires...
...range of first-year Harvard initiations won't include drinking the blood of a freshly killed bobcat or skinning and dressing an unlucky raccoon. Since most cronies of Harvard students will have never stood eye to eye with a grizzly bear, the bold graduate can add distinction to a Chase Manhattan application with bird calling and scat identification skills. Why wait until schmoozing with a client on a Maine hunting lease to accrue tracking abilities when a multitude of outfitters abound in the New England states? While more dainty Harvardians might disdain a mass of blood-encrusted feathers on their...
...felt like punching myself in the face after that fumble," Menick said. "I felt so guilty after the defense had played so well and we had a chance to put the game away on their eight-yard-line. I was just watching [sophomore wide receiver] Josh Wilske chase down their player and saying...
...sense Hillary Clinton sets a standard, dictating how modern American women will be expected to behave in circumstances similar to hers. If she stays with Bill Clinton, she sends a message that it's normal for men in power to chase girls and that it's proper to stand by your husband regardless of his lies. By staying, Hillary indicates that women should put up with the kind of contempt Clinton has shown. Leaving would demonstrate that women are no longer willing to be married to self-obsessed little boys who don't know how to keep their pants zipped...