Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They first played in 1906 and gather in Cambridge or New Haven on alternate years, but competitors in the annual Harvard-Yale chess match don't need helmets or pads...
...attention." Most of these businesses--like Free-PC, which offers a free computer in exchange for a constant ad presence on your desktop, and NetZero, an Internet provider--are relying on advertisers and marketers to provide their income. They subscribe to the old Net mantra: Get Big Fast. Gather enough eyeballs, aggregate enough consumer-shopping habits and click-through tendencies, and sellers will pay a premium to get at your customers...
...political advocacy. However, the University of Wisconsin is not donating to the Gore campaign and sending the bill to its students. The student fee is a means of promoting an open forum on campus for groups of all kinds: religious, political, artistic and social. A union is allowed to gather dues to support collective bargaining and other activities central to its purpose and many universities see the existence of a well-used forum of student debate as central to their academic mission. As Justices David H. Souter '61 and Stephen G. Breyer observed during the oral arguments, a university supporting...
Galluccio said it was outrageous that the students had to gather in November to demonstrate for a cause they had first championed last spring. He said the University should have agreed to pay a living wage when the issue originally surfaced last March...
...blast of optimism in the form of "Smile," in which Sam and Janet start off with sugary harmonies over a bouncing beat. Then the lyrics begin to take hold and things turn sour in a hurry. "You lost your health/Never had no wealth/So tighten up your belt/As you gather dust on some self." Coomes has gained a reputation among indie-pop circles for writing nihilistic lyrics that make the script for "Fight Club" read like a kids' book. The song concludes with the moral of the story: "Others have it worse/So smile/It's not so bad." Somehow, Sam doesn...