Word: directed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aside from its modern architecture-which stood out in overwhelmingly traditional Harvard Yard-the library's design was revolutionary in two other ways: It was the first library in the nation specifically for undergraduates, and students were allowed direct access to its stacks...
...wars are over; the browser battle is winding down. For all Microsoft's muttering about how its rival wants to create a direct competitor to Windows--the so-called AOL PC--Case would admit to no area in which the two firms are in danger of butting heads on equal terms...
...these days there is so much great information available via the Internet that I no longer have much of an edge. And on-line trading execution, while suffering from occasional outages, equals anything I can muster with all my direct wires and trading turrets...
...Direct service provision such as tutoring prisoners or sheltering battered women is inherently a band-aid solution applied after the cut has already been made. Political involvement, on the other hand, attacks the system with legislation that keeps men out of prisons and women out of shelters to begin with. Is not the potential for change much greater in the political sphere...
Sure, but here's the rub: Public service at the political level only is akin to working in the plant where accountability is very diffuse and direct contact with the beneficiaries of policies is very rare. In such settings, the driving force for progressive legislation is interest and not duty. Just as killing the fish directly ensured a deeper sense of responsibility, serving clients directly will remind one of the injustices of society so that accountability cannot be dodged on a daily basis. Only when the desire for social change arises out of duty, rather than interest, will...