Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another change, students who have outstanding payments on their term bill will have to go to the Term Bill Office at Holyoke Center to clear their account before returning to register, according to Associate Registrar Thurston Smith...
...became a cultural icon -- students at Carnegie Mellon University wired photosensors to the indicator lights on a Coke machine, programmed a computer to count the cans as they were dispensed, and connected the whole contraption to the network. By typing the command finger coke cs.cmu.edu, anybody with an Internet account at Carnegie Mellon -- or anywhere else -- could tell at a glance how many cans were left...
...more than a lack of morals, as claimed by critics, it is the declining number of decent-wage jobs and an increasingly inequitable distribution of wealth that account for the pervasiveness, persistence and growth of poverty. "For the first time," says Northwestern University's Rebecca Blank, one of the nation's leading poverty economists, "decreases in poverty no longer accompany economic growth. This is because the median family income, which registered almost no growth in the 1970s and 1980s, is now actually declining. The welfare rolls are not increasing because of generous benefits or because single mothers are working less...
...staff fails to take into account the mission of the Harvard Square Business Association and its member landlords and entrepreneurs. The association has been striving towards gentrification and the development of a high-income, non-local clientele for Harvard Square...
...North Korean nuclear pact and the mini-breakthrough to allow U.S. apples onto Japanese shelves. The little-mentioned downside: The U.S. trade gap with Japan has grown, Clinton admitted, and "further progress must be made" to open Japan's markets to U.S. autos and auto parts, which account for nearly 60 percent of the deficit...