Word: existance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convention on beach volleyball: "A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. Now it is not only a sport in the Olympics. There are over 30 countries that have a competition internationally....And there's a whole new world of opportunity opening up that didn't even exist....And that's what freedom is all about...
...such sites as www.winamp.com (The player is the software program that allows you to listen to MP3-encoded music, and a dozen different flavors are available, free, for PCs, Macs and UNIX machines.) Countless search engines like mp3search.com are devoted to finding the vast archives of MP3 music that exist online. A lot of the music, from the Beatles to Beethoven, is on underground "pirate" sites, which specialize in the illegal practice of giving away copyrighted music. The recording industry employs an army whose job it is to root out pirate sites--tough work since some archives spring...
...point this summer, I found myself concerned with the deterioration of the ruble of Belarus, a country that didn't even exist during the cold war. According to an article by Michael Wines in the New York Times, the Belarus ruble is commonly called a zaichik, or bunny, because there's a picture of a small hare on the note. Wines' piece included speculation that calling your currency bunny, as if addressing a debutante, might not be the best way to win international respect, even if your economy didn't happen to be a shambles...
...life is more complicated today than it was when Gomes graduated. College students comprise a more diverse group than they did 50 or even 30 years ago--socio-economically, racially and internationally; more opportunities exist for people graduating from college; and if there ever was a well-woven moral fabric in this country, it has come unraveled. Consequently, expectations--of students, their parents and the educational institutions themselves--have changed...
...There's an appeal to this which cannot bedenied," he said. "It doesn't appeal to me, butcertainly there are members of our society who arecaptivated with the idea that something like thiscan exist...