Is it wrong to watch Top Chef with store bought fried chicken and a red bull?
Ten years ago, Microsoft was the company everyone loved to hate.The same was true twenty years ago and the same was true 20 minutes ago.
The core complaint about Microsoft in the 1990s was that its Windows market share gave it monopoly power, which it abused in multiple ways. Attorneys General and others zeroed in on the “bundling” of the Internet Explorer Web browser, which they claimed was forced on users because Microsoft offered it as part of Windows.And you know how it was fixed? Not by government intervention but a changing market and new products which Microsoft has not been able to keep up with.
Over the last six years, hundreds of teenage boys have been expelled or felt compelled to leave the polygamous settlement that straddles Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah.Emphasis mine.
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“In part it’s an issue of control,” Mr. Murphy said of the harsh rules. But underlying the expulsions, he added, is a mathematical reality. “If you’re going to have plural marriage, you need fewer men,” he said.
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