Word: ago
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty years ago, Harvard didn't have as many graduate schools, didn't need hundreds of employees to manage its information technology, and had half as many museums as it does today. Add new dorms and the corresponding support staff, and it's easy to see how Harvard has grown in spite of itself...
That's down from nearly 50 Harvard security guards a year ago. And, in a year from now, there will likely be less than...
When Lou Gerstner, IBM's iron-willed CEO, makes a decision, he usually sticks by it. So how was it that 10 days ago he made an abrupt about-face, scaling back a change to the company's retirement plan that was supposed to save $200 million annually? And did Gerstner realize he was feeding a nationwide workplace riot among baby boomers, who are convinced their nest eggs are being plundered...
Many years ago, Simon Blackburn tried to teach me philosophy, an endeavor I suspect he found rather frustrating. If he had written this book back then, we both might have had more fun with Cartesian dualism and the like. Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us. Alas, he is better at explaining doubts and skepticisms and moral relativism than at charting a path out of such dilemmas...
...Watt and Tracey Thorn put down roots in the New York City and London club scenes a few years ago, after their dance-floor remake of Missing became an international smash. Watt even started manning nightclub turntables. No longer content to be ultra-cool purveyors of trip-hop and jazz-pop, EBTG now adds dance-friendly house beats to its mix. Thorn's magnificently melancholic voice can find its footing anyplace, but some of the beats sound a bit like last year's, and in pop, that's ancient...