Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took about 120 years from Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the conventional telephone to wire up 1 billion customers worldwide. Current estimates by mobile operators suggest the same number of mobile subscribers could be online by the year 2005. Little wonder that traditional computer companies are scrambling to enter the mobile business. Bill Gates, whose aim has been to put a PC on every desk, told a symposium in February that "Microsoft's vision for PCs five years from now is a wireless device you can carry around...
...Bertiger and two colleagues had drafted blueprints for a revolutionary new system that would blanket the heavens with communications satellites--77 in all--bounce a cellular call from one to another, then beam the data stream downward 420 miles to one of 12 earth stations where the call would enter the terrestrial telephone network. Motorola dubbed the system--and the company it spun off to build and operate it--Iridium, after the 77th element on the periodic table. (After trimming the number of satellites required to 66, Motorola wisely chose not to go with the name of the corresponding element...
Such a review would be welcome to many students, who complain that proctors in the first-year dorms are often uninformed and concentration advisors enter the picture too late...
...them make the decision to increase financial aid, thereby reducing some of the loan debt incurred by students. Nevertheless, average student debt is $18,800. With these staggering figures in mind, we would like to suggest the College examine the possibility of loan forgiveness for students who choose to enter low-paying jobs involving public service or education...
This does not mean that the council is now just a "glorified high school dance committee." There are real issues on this campus that need to be addressed. The Class of 2002 is the first group of students to enter a fully randomized residential system, and it is in this year that the Committee on House Life (a student-faculty committee) will conduct its four-year review on randomization...