Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuition and fees cover only about half the actual cost of educating a Harvard undergraduate," Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said in a statement. "Increases are limited to those necessary for sustaining the quality of our academic programs and operating the facilities that house them...
...dues to an interest group that sends me newsletters about the legislative session. My computer's address file has the home and business phone numbers for all my representatives from the school board to the state legislature. And, of course, I'm not without the phone numbers of their actual legislative offices...
...issue at hand is not actual danger, but the supposed capacity for danger. Although sex offenders have an unusually high rate of recidivism, there is no guarantee that any particular person still poses a threat to the community. Nonetheless, the sex offender laws maintain that the potential risk is so great that it is worth eschewing the fundamental American value of privacy...
...happier, or there are no problems that can't be solved in half an hour. You know, the kind of quick-fix thinking that might lead someone--a politician, say--to believe that the V chip will be more than just a benign distraction from the genuinely thorny problems--actual violence, say--facing American kids...
...once, the system would surely collapse. The framing of this nonevent as an "outrage" is meant to deter others from exercising similar capabilities. The threats of Ad Board action, the juvenile graffiti, the pontifications of administrators at the various Harvard computer committees are all out of proportion to the actual offense. They're putting on a show to ward off potential violators...