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Maura Tierney, playing Hopkins' estranged daughter, listens to Gooding talk and struggles to keep her emotions in check, smoking intensely while her eyes water and her chin quivers.
A piece chronicles the struggles of Firefly, a tiny Internet startup: Its "agent" software, an artificial-intelligence program that helps consumers choose and buy online, may be the Net's next killer application, but only if Microsoft or another software giant doesn't create a knockoff first.
Lured by the promise of treasure galleons and stores of ammunition, some pirates worked independently; others, however, were employed by the various European crowns, particularly the British, to help carry on their power struggles in the colonial world.
Malaprop in Mexico” [XV, 4] recalled my own struggles with Portuguese.
Once they decided it was OK to tell illustrative stories rather than produce theorems, economists could write about exciting topics that had been off limits: predatory pricing, strategic investment to get the jump on competition, technological races, struggles to define industry standards.