Word: functionals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, in the un-mysterious period that came before childhood. Many of us were not born when the first Star Wars movie came out and don't remember seeing any of them for the first time. Instead of behaving like a normal media product, the original movies function as a story from prehistoric childhood, like Sunday School or the songs that mother sang...
Intensified bombing inevitably brings intensified "collateral damage," and NATO Friday was investigating Serb reports that 50 refugee civilians were killed and as many wounded after the alliance dropped eight cluster bombs on a village near the Kosovo city of Prizren. Images of civilian casualties function as a kind of counterweight to the refugees' tales of trauma, adding to the pressure for a diplomatic solution. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin heads back to Belgrade next week, this time accompanied by Finland's president, Martti Ahtisaari, who is reportedly acting as an envoy for the Western powers. With talks about talks continuing...
...jointly attended elementary school, were placed on separate campuses during middle school. The rationale was that girls matured earlier, both physically and intellectually, and that during this time of divergent development, it was best to keep boys and girls apart, except for the occasional (and highly awkward) social function. On the boys' campus, teachers played off our desire to become "men." Men studied hard and played hard. Men tucked their shirts in their pants. In the hallways, testosterone-laden behavior, like body checks into the lockers, was rampant...
...There will be individuals within the Institutewho are willing to say that, but it will not be[the dean's] function to be your advocate," shesaid...
...mathematical as much as a financial lens. He loves to cite Metcalfe's Law of Connectivity as the driving force behind his approach. The law, set down by Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, states that the value of an interactive network--such as Lycos, Yahoo or AOL--is a function of the number of people attached to the network; and value increases exponentially when another person comes online. Thus a network of 10 people is at least four times as valuable as one with five. What this means is that every extra AOL subscriber is worth more than every extra...