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...Next topic: minimum wage. Is this a concern to anyone here...
...Thomas Penfield Jackson stayed his order dividing up the company pending appeal. Microsoft lawyers were busily drafting briefs urging the Supreme Court to hold back and let a presumably more pro-Microsoft appeals court get a crack at it first. But in Building No. 33, Gates was dodging the topic. Pressed by a reporter, he insisted nothing in .NET had been influenced by the case. Some observers, however, saw it as at least partly an effort to fend off a break-up. Jackson wants Windows to be its own company. The new plan--which further integrates it into Microsoft...
...noticed that it was about the length of a baseball bat. He grasped the handle right above the blade and took a couple of practice swings. He found a suitable hitting rock and tossed it up in the air and swung at it with the handle. Strike one." The topic covered here is not goofing off but rather how a young boy feels while doing...
...want to spark a heated debate at a dinner party, bring up the topic of genetically modified foods. For many people, the concept of genetically altered, high-tech crop production raises all kinds of environmental, health, safety and ethical questions. Particularly in countries with long agrarian traditions--and vocal green lobbies--the idea seems against nature...
...exuded nonchalance when challenged on the topic. He laughed during a debate in California when he was asked by CNN's Jeff Greenfield about a lawyer nodding off during a trial in which a man was sentenced to die. When Bush addressed the question, he said, "I'm absolutely confident that everybody that has been put to death is two things: one, they're guilty of the crime charged, and secondly, they had full access to our courts." When asked in the past what had been his biggest mistake in life, he didn't cite anything weightier than trading away...