Word: barrenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the men must be on their best behavior, the school is warning the ladies not to expect a cake walk. Banned are lipstick, jewelry and ? sorry guys ? dating upperclassmen. The women must also live in the same barren dorm rooms and sport the same stuffy drill uniforms as men. Despite the rigid conditions, VMI wasn't beyond a little generosity. As the women arrived on campus today, each received a stylish buzz cut on the house...
...solar system; inasmuch as no one protested, he began selling it. So far, he has sold around 13,000 parcels on the moon and more than 1,000 on Mars. "It's a great investment for future generations," he says. Does Hope have plans to develop the apparently barren property? "Personally, no. But on the moon, I've had 25 companies purchase different licenses to provide things like telecommunications, water and power...
...have gone to people other than him. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, drives a Mercedes-Benz and has graced the cover of several major magazines. Berners-Lee has graced the cover of none, and he drives a 13-year-old Volkswagen Rabbit. He has a smallish, barren office at M.I.T., where his nonprofit group, the World Wide Web Consortium, helps set technical standards for the Web, guarding its coherence against the potentially deranging forces of the market...
Much like the stands at all-too-many Harvard sporting events, last night's open meeting in Emerson Hall, which was designed to foster communication between the student body and the NCAA Self-Study steering committee, was barren...
Successors to the leftist People's Mujahedin, which helped overthrow Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the soldiers of the rebel force are bivouacked in five camps in the barren salt desert of Iraq, just out of range of Iranian artillery. Critics call them pawns of the Iraqis, who are said to have given the resisters money and arms in addition to a generous swath of desert land. They also say Rajavi hardly represents a democratic alternative to the current regime...