Word: interim
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...According to reports in three major newspapers Monday morning, the Justice Department and 19 states filing the antitrust suit against Microsoft will seek a breakup of the firm. But that's not the real news. The warning siren from Microsoft's standpoint is that Justice reportedly intends to seek interim relief while the case gets dragged through the nation's courts, including a halt to Microsoft's alleged bullying practices and, more important, having the firm reveal the inner workings of its Windows software. The prosecution has until Friday to submit its proposal. The remedy hearing is set to begin...
...theme is abandoned, and the audience is introduced to a different group of boys who take the Lisbon girls to the prom. The original narrators return in the final third of the movie, leaving the audience to believe that the boys had no contact with the sisters in the interim. Whereas a novel can be successful through episodic narrative, a film loosely applying this technique suffers, and at the expense of the viewer...
Mori's first task will be to restore the public's faith in the government, which was badly shaken by the bumbling and deceitful handling of his predecessor's health emergency. It took 34 hours for Obuchi aide Mikio Aoki, who briefly stepped in as interim leader, to reveal the full extent of the Prime Minister's illness. Whether Mori can inspire trust and move the country along the path of badly needed financial and economic reforms remains to be seen. His 31-year career as a party apparatchik and former Education Minister and Trade Minister provides no evidence...
...strenuous activity, you can help yourself by taking a brisk 30-min. walk at least four days a week. Find out by a visit to the doctor if you have diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, and, if so, start treatment. Most important, don't be spooked by interim reports from unfinished studies or by breathless accounts about them...
When the stock market careened out of control last Tuesday, Rick Neely could only hold on tight. Neely, the interim chief executive of Beyond.com a struggling software seller, had 200,000 options priced at $7 a share riding on every lurch. Last April, when Beyond.com stock hit $37, such options would have been worth $6 million--chump change by dotcom standards but far better than last week's figure. With Beyond.com down to $3.75, his options were "under water"--worthless. "The drop this week was so dramatic, you can't even comprehend it," says Neely, who took over in January...