Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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The stock reaction is muted considering how big these problems appear to be.
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Crouch has the stature to lead the line, his very existence sets an unusual problem for defenders, and the combination of his spidery limbs, surprisingly delicate control and patient approach allow him to hold the ball up quite effectively
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The problem is the lawsuit is holding them up from answering the competitive threat.
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That's as good a defense as we've seen on film all season and thought we'd have problems with them, but we were one block away a few times in the first half from tying the game up.
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This is a glaring, embarrassing problem that Microsoft has to fix.
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It has always been the focal point of the development.
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We're blessed with a little bit of speed. The skill people, if they find a crack, they can take it to the house.
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I think it makes some sense; it's just consolidation like anything else. You take two weaker players and combine them for strength.
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Microsoft has realized that PCs are not the center of the world. E-business or online services to enterprises could become the next big area of growth for the company.
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Microsoft has a long-term e-business goal that involves MSN. They've got to keep MSN alive and relevant enough within the marketplace until they have their e-business web channel ready.
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Microsoft is the dominant player if it chooses to be which would mean there would be significant market share losses for Symantec.
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My only expectation of him is that he will prove that everyone who had great confidence in him was right.
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To buy (Siebel) and combine them along with other smaller acquisitions into Oracle in a very short time is an unprecedented task in terms of difficulty. It's not easy by any stretch, and that is a lot of risk to try to do that in a short time with a bunch of different technologies.
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The fact that the EU is showing its teeth is very significant. Microsoft kind of got away with things in the U.S.