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Word: firm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sharp, delicate eyes and wonderfully expressive mouth. In fact, the occasional, accidental spurts of beautiful acting she is allowed only serve to frustrate the viewer even more as she struggles to do what she can with her underdeveloped role. In one scene, we see the hard set of her firm chin break for a moment, and this barely perceptible tremor is basically the only memorable aspect of her entire performance...

Author: By Myung Joh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Mangles McCourt's Memoir | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...hear you scream - but they can figure out who you are and where you've been online. This comforts some and annoys others, and for the latter comes the Freedom system, the most comprehensive software package ever to limit the traceability of Internet usage. Produced by Montreal tech firm Zero-Knowledge Systems, the software has been long awaited by privacy advocates, and long dreaded by groups battling cyber-evils such as web-based child-porn rings. How it works: Surfers who purchase the $50 software are given five digital aliases. While web sites can normally trace a user's travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zero-Knowledge Could Mean Lots o' Lawsuits | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...University has currently signed onto the government-sponsored Fair Labor Association (FLA) and independently employs the international consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, but PSLM members said these measures are inadequate...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Chants, Marches Way Across the Square | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Instead, PSLM members urge Harvard to join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), an independent monitoring firm...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Chants, Marches Way Across the Square | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...make Moses proud when computers misread 00 as 1900 on Jan. 1.) Yes, stock prices could unravel if Y2Khaos really occurs, or if anything else for that matter ignites a panic. Can you say higher interest rates? But serious jitters seem a long shot. The market has already stood firm against three interest-rate hikes. As for Y2K, I believe the panic came when tech stocks hit the skids last summer. Done. Finito. The market is now looking well past the millennium, having got comfortable with the notion that it will pass with barely a sputter. For that and other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Y2 Buy Stocks | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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