Word: talking-to
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...dominated by Windows-viable products. Microsoft, unsurprisingly, denies the claim. But after Gates pulled the rug out from under his own defense team Thursday in Washington with an apparently contradictory piece in Newsweek, don't expect to see Gates appearing for the defense. "He's probably gotten a stiff talking-to from his lawyers about that," says Taylor. Microsoft has enough troubles already...
...lecturer, a short, thickset man with a ruddy face and a big voice, was coming to the end of his talk. Gathering up his notes and books, he tucked his hornrimmed spectacles into the pocket of his tweed jacket and picked up his mortarboard. Still talking-to the accompaniment of occasional appreciative laughs and squeals from his audience-he leaned over to return the watch he had borrowed from a student in the front row. As he ended his final sentence, he stepped off the platform...