Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both a personal vision and a design for living in a highly computerized and networked age, Release 2.0 is brimming with autobiographical details of the author's ascent in a largely male-dominated world of venture capitalists and upstart corporate analysts. Such reminiscing remains appropriate in the first chapter, where Dyson speaks of "How [she] got the story and learned to love markets." Her attempts to find a vocational niche in Moscow and her participation on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties organization, require less of the conversational tone used in discussing her childhood dinners...
...success is simple: pick people who pick catchy songs. He should know, having written the 1966 hit Sweet Talkin' Guy. "He's the only person heading a music distributor who's had success at two major companies," says author Fred Goodman, whose Mansion on the Hill traces the ascent of music moguls. Perhaps the most tantalizing part of his latest job is competing with his old employer. "I don't feel any need for vindication," says Morris about Warner. "That's not to say I don't want our company to be the industry leader, because...
...beautiful Chiyo as a threat. A failed runaway attempt cuts short her training, but then the famous geisha Mameha takes a sudden and surprising interest in Chiyo and her unusual blue-gray eyes. Chiyo is permitted to resume her training, becoming the geisha Sayuri and beginning her slow ascent to the heights of Gion...
...make an entire album where the casual listener could remember each individual song well enough afterward to, say, name it or state with conviction that it was one of 11 songs as opposed to three. Now we know they're working on it, and that listening to the slow ascent will be worth...
...perfect essay, like life itself, is exact in formal procedure and logical ascent. It has a beginning, known more intimately as a birth, a middle, that part in which one determines the direction and slant of one's future endeavors, and an end, the climax toward which all prior experiences naturally lead and in which the essence of the topic, one's purpose, becomes known. Let us proceed now to discuss first the birth, second the middle, and third the end of the perfect essay...