Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tend to believe that Armageddonistic forecasts are extreme, but then again, with the little amount of money in my bank account, it would hardly be a loss if the institution tanked...
...years later, the Class of 1999 one-upped them by not even having to register for an e-mail account. Those accounts had been created long before that class stepped into the Yard...
...instance, state and federal emissions standards do not cover SUVs and light trucks, which are enormous contributors to the problem on account of their popularity and inefficiency. Additionally, these emissions standards can never address the problem of carbon dioxide production; every gasoline combustion engine generates this greenhouse gas which has proliferated in the industrial age because of human activity...
...proxy--a middleman between you and the Web. All requests are shortstopped there, and cookies are summarily eaten. In a few weeks, the company will introduce a service that allows you to discriminate: if you do online banking in which a cookie is required, you can set up your account to automatically hand it over. Otherwise, Anonymizer cloaks...
...centuries ago, would have named the English language and the English-speaking peoples as Most Likely to Succeed? Why is it not, say, German culture rather than American that saturates the globe? Why not Japanese, or Spanish, or French? How to account for the dominance of English as the language of the world's elites, or for the military/industrial/financial pre-eminence that, after two world wars, passed from the British Empire to the Americans...