Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Owning and cultivating a lawn became a fabulous new way for the social elite to compete in the conspicuous consumption of leisure. A great deal of money was required to buy the materials, hire a designer and planters, and have either gardeners or animals shave it down to its optimum length. When the upper echelons of colonial society returned from their European travels with news of the latest in fashion, food, and home decor, they brought the lawn with them--it came from Old to New England with all its attendant symbolism...
Still, Wilson said a good deal of Harvard'spast and future successes in attracting prominentblack faculty members come as a result of`raiding' other schools--a prospect that he saidthat is unpleasant but inevitable...
...number of us feel guilty because there'ssuch a concentration of African-American facultyhere [at Harvard]," he said. "The only way we'regoing to deal with the problem is to enlarge thepool...
...YORK: AT&T got the bride -- but it's letting Comcast share the dowry. In a string of deals announced late Tuesday, the former Ma Bell became the nation's No. 1 cable company when it finally won MediaOne's hand. Comcast, for stepping aside, gets to buy 2 million of AT&T's cable subscribers to further solidify its current position as a regional powerhouse and national No. 3. Not to mention $1.5 billion in deal-breaker fees from MediaOne (AT&T will foot that bill). So Comcast is happy. MediaOne's stockholders are definitely happy. And the groom...
...would get the only thing it likes better than cash: market share, via a commitment from AT&T to use Windows software in every set-top Internet/phone/cable box that AT&T will be running wires into. Is the new Ma Cable moving a little too fast? Not if the deal was Microsoft's price for staying out of Comcast's corner. Plus, a $5 billion check -- especially with Bill Gates's name on it -- helps dispel investor fears that AT&T's headlong rush into cable is burying the company in debt. "AT&T has made a very smart move...