Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true absurdity of the media's analysis can be seen by looking at what they actually said. On Tuesday, as evening anchors traded chit-chat with their Beacon Hill corespondents, they all had a smug sense of satisfaction because they figured out the governor's game. They could see he was attempting to look tough and trying to be seen standing up for his principles...
...ground. It would then be at least two hours before the bags could deflate and one of three metal petals that make up the sides of the ship could open, turning the entire structure upright. Only then could a more powerful transmitter inside send out a brighter radio beacon...
...failed to learn the true lesson of Winthrop's oft-quoted phrase. In trying to be a beacon for information technology (IT), it drew the constant ire of Harvard's nine deans who were accustomed to the "every tub on its own bottom" theory of management...
...tried to be the beacon for information technology at Harvard, but that's not how Harvard works," one administrator said...
...objective now--unlike the beacon OIT once sought to be--is "to provide efficient and effective information technology services to the University...