Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Living Wage Campaign at Harvard grew out ofthe Progressive Student Labor Movement in January.The students want Harvard to pay unionized workers$10 an hour. They also feel that the Universityshould install a universal minimum wage for allUniversity workers, including casual orsubcontracted workers...
...remains the most reliable option, particularly for small businesses and home offices with no time to be anyone's beta tester. OfficeConnect looks easy enough, but it still requires users to string new cables and install circuit boards inside their computers. "Those add-in cards pretty much eliminate the casual user," says Bruce Kasrel, analyst with Forrester Research. "A lot of people who own PCs are afraid to open them." He expects to see, before long, more home-networking products make use of a computer's far more accessible Universal Serial Bus if additional hardware is needed...
...dress code is business casual--no jeans allowed, not to mention pierced noses. It's the first day of class--hacking class--and the instructors, smartly attired in matching corporate polo shirts, point at screens full of code and step-by-step directions on how to hack a host computer. "Get this: No username, no password, and we're connected," says one. "I'm starting to get tingles. They're going to be toast pretty quick." Geekspeak, at least, is still de rigueur...
...social occasion, and I was having a casual chat with a staff person from one of the lvy League sister schools (not Harvard/Radcliffe). This woman mentioned, in passing, that the presidents of these colleges held regular meetings, and, among them, the Radcliffe president was regarded as mildly ridiculous because she had the title and the salary and came to the meetings but had no responsibility for admissions, instruction, discrimination, tuition, housing, campus crises or other badges of office...
Lewinsky: This is hard for me to answer. In a very...in a confined, in a strict definition, in a hard definition, no, it wasn't. In casual conversation...