Word: grewing
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While a breakup is a harsh punishment, it is unclear whether anything weaker would effectively deter Microsoft from continuing its monopolistic practices. Conduct remedies that left Microsoft structurally intact but placed rules on its behavior would likely be evaded by the software giant; the antitrust case grew out of Microsoft's circumvention of a consent decree not to bundle Internet Explorer with Windows. Imposing permanent regulations on Microsoft's actions would thus require constant judicial monitoring (and constant appeals from Microsoft) to ensure compliance...
Alvarez was born in Puerto Rico, although she moved to Brooklyn, New York before she was a year old and grew up there. She was the first in her immediate family to attend college, but had two sisters and a brother who followed her to Harvard. Before attending Harvard, Alvarez was in all-female Catholic schools...
...Hobbs grew up in Concord, Mass. as one of four siblings. He is unsure exactly what the future holds for him now that he has retired, although he is sure of some differences...
...going to marry." Early miscarriages contributed to a period of depression, and even after her three children were born, Lotz sometimes felt trapped "in small talk and small toys and small sticky fingerprints." She decided to start a women's Bible-study class: 300 women showed up, and attendance grew thereafter. Encouraged, Lotz began speaking publicly--and powerfully--on Scripture. Her father's biographer William Martin described her holding her own with the best at the 1983 World Evangelical Conference, "driving her points home with the same two-pistol hand gesture and hammering cadence her father had used so effectively...
...Jewish in Peoria, Ill. ("Mostly, my mother made me feel bad about myself"); her fascination with communism after graduating from Smith College; and the strain of her 22-year marriage to Carl Friedan. After the success of The Feminine Mystique, her husband, who had originally encouraged her research, grew jealous of her success and, she alleges, became physically abusive. "It seems as if I never went on television shows in those days without a black eye I had to cover over with makeup," she writes. "I was a disgrace, really, to the women's movement by being such a worm...