Word: bottomly
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Google is young, small and agile enough to create a unique culture of Web-use creativity that feeds its bottom line. I was impressed to learn that each Google employee is supposed to devote 10% of his or her time to exploring far-out ideas. I also like the company's emphasis on developing technology first and finding an economically viable business model second. Google could apply those values by entering the spam wars. If it develops an antispam tool that defeats e-mail evildoers, Google will continue growing while furthering its philosophy...
...championship match, second runner-up Joshua D. Samuelson ‘06, a former Crimson photo executive, described the moment when he realized that his dream was over. “I was red and all of a sudden I noticed all the red chips trapped at the bottom amongst a sea of black chips” said Samuelson. “I was bested by a better player”. That better player was Megan E. Camm ’07. Her prize? A match with the champion-to-be Newman. The final round was expanded to a best...
...near absence from the nation’s more selective colleges and universities is now and will continue to be the most important form of inequity in higher education. Barely 10 percent of students at the top 31 private colleges and universities in the United States come from the bottom two-fifths of the income distribution. That leaves students from such families far more underrepresented than are women, African Americans, or Latinos. Poor people may be the only group without a chance of descriptive representation in the faculty and administrative ranks; by definition (despite our occasional complaints about salaries), professors...
...artist and three opponents, including his mother. Rather than conveying the room and the people as they might have been at one point in time, the piece catalogs the expressions and gestures of the players as the game progresses, repeating images of their faces and bodies. At the bottom of the board on which the photographs are pasted is Hockney’s left hand and his Scrabble board with its seven letters; this places the viewer distinctly in the artist’s viewpoint. Despite nearly erasing himself from the photographs, the traces, his hand, and the words...
...Within Harvard’s top faculty, a divide is growing among its literary and social critics. On one side, there stand those who see pop culture artifacts as valid objects of inquiry. On the other side, there stand profs who fear a collapse toward the bottom of the barrel.THE GREAT EQUALIZERSMenand, Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language, says that he put the George Lucas movie on his syllabus not because of its intrinsic artistic value, but because of its social context. “ ‘Star Wars’ is an important movie...