Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, the University's extensive bookkeeping overhaul, known as Project ADAPT, has made the Y2K conversion easier in some respects, since its new methods of keeping track of Harvard's books already took the millennium into account...
According to Robert M. Gogan, supervisor of waste management, the College's contracts with waste hauling firms already take into account the need for extra trash capacity, such as dumpsters...
...glitch stems from computer chips and programs that take into account only the last two digits of the year in keeping track of the date. As a result, they recognize the year 2000 as 1900, and the difference could lead to severe problems for Harvard...
Thus, on Secretary of the Faculty Fox's own account, when the Office of the Dean marks a letter "Personal and Confidential," the Office of the Dean recognizes no obligation on the part of the recipient to keep the letter's contents private. What is astonishing, however, is that on Fox's account, when the Office of the Dean marks a letter "Personal and Confidential," the Office of the Dean recognizes no obligation on its part to respect the constraints of confidentiality...
...during this period that Gergen was nicknamed "the Sieve" for his willingness to leak details to the press. Gergen later acknowledged that he was a source for the account written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the days preceding Nixon's resignation...