Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particular, sharply defined problem, has proved considerably harder. One of the biggest obstacles has been technologists' naivete about the character of human thought, their tendency to confuse thinking with analytical problem solving. They forget that when you look out the window and let your mind wander, or fall asleep and dream, you are also thinking. They tend to overlook something that such mind-obsessed poets as Wordsworth and Coleridge understood two centuries ago: that thought is largely a process of stringing memories together, and that memories are often linked by emotion. No computer can achieve artificial thought without achieving artificial...
...everyone in the weight room is one which all of us as Harvard students face on a number of levels: to win the inner struggle between finishing a set and quitting from exhaustion or weakness. In reading period, there is the struggle to keep studying instead of falling asleep or going out to enjoy (what should be) nice weather. And through the rest of the year, there is the struggle to balance schoolwork with extracurricular activities, paper assignments with formal invitations...
...brought up the subject of our earliest conversations because it had occurred to me that my children might remember more about those nocturnal encounters than I do. Unlike me, after all, they were wide awake; nobody can make that much noise while asleep. "You don't happen to recall hearing anything in those days about pilgrims wending their way to Canterbury, do you?" I asked...
...stripped naked, and shackles placed on my feet and hands. Then they beat me and would not let me sleep for 48 hours, striking me whenever I tried to fall asleep...
...right to buy stock at a preset price within a specific period of time, regardless of what happens in the market.) You don't need to take off your socks to figure that a stock gain of merely $1--a slam dunk for any company that is not soundly asleep--mints an instant $1 million for each of those CEOs. That's pay for showing up, not pay for performance. A growing number of CEOs get so-called megagrants, which are grants of stock options valued at more than three times the CEO's annual salary and bonus. Such grants...