Word: ethers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's something about Russia. It gives grandeur to tragedy and rivets eyes that would otherwise wander. Maybe it's the Russian soul, that famously long-suffering bit of global ether that gave Dostoevsky and Tolstoy their golden touches. Maybe it's the sweeping snowscapes, or the songs, and that there's just no throng like a Russian throng, fur hats and all. Or maybe it's all those nukes. Whatever it is, it pulls Reds back from the brink and into the pantheon of really long, turgid movies worth watching...
...typical college student what he or she thinks of upon hearing the word "radio." For many, the work conjures up images of a dark past when broadcasters couldn't send pictures through the ether, an age when torchsingers from Chicago and political party conventions in Cincinnati mesmerized listeners huddled around dusty RCA units in the parlor...
...Suarez the added powers seem to have been too strong an ether. Soon after taking office, he tried to fire most senior members of the government, including a police chief credited with cutting crime. The state attorney found the move illegal, and the mayor was forced to agree to six months of oversight by a local court...
...Howard Stringer, president of Sony's U.S. subsidiary. "He is a player," exults Stringer, the former CBS network boss brought in by Sony to clean up the mess at its U.S. operation. "He is young, dynamic, and he is taken seriously by this crowd. It's in the ether...
...becoming more and more frequent for jobs to posted more to the Internet, for instance, how can unwired citizens get access? How can the information-pool access the growing number of educational and governmental services virutally located in the electronic ether...