Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several outages and slow-downs in Harvard's central FAS Unix system this weekend plagued students who could not access their accounts, preventing them from sending and receiving e-mail and working on assignments in this, the middle of the reading period crunch...
...course, at this point, no proposed remedy--including the idea of a "gilt lift" of 300,000 sows to hurricane-ravaged Central America--may do much for the independent hog farmer. George Bailey is one of that fading breed; he owns 650 sows in Walstonburg, N.C., and unlike corporate megafarms, isn't blessed with deep pockets. In the past year Bailey has had to use most of his savings just to stay afloat, and he still racked up $35,000 in additional debt. "We're slowly going broke," he notes. "The [meat] packers are making a killing...
...this the future of network television? Fox is sure hoping it is. One of the few breakout shows last year was Comedy Central's scabrous South Park, and the year before, Fox had its own success with that animated paean to redneck Texas, King of the Hill. Now the genre that seems to offer the quickest shortcut to countercultural chic is becoming more popular than ever. The three start-up networks (Fox, UPN and the WB) have scheduled seven new prime-time cartoon series for this year, and more are in the works. "Animated shows stand out from the pack...
These 11 countries, called Euroland, have already surrendered much of their economic autonomy to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, an institution established to centralize monetary policy...
...Central Bank will set a single interest rate for Euroland, and a Growth and Stability Pact limits their debts and deficits...