Word: globalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MSMIT. Software giant Microsoft is funding the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a five-year, $25 million research venture called "Project I-Campus" to develop technology to enhance higher education. Projects under consideration include the improvement of long-distance learning via the Internet, web-based virtual museums and "global classrooms...
Public-interest groups like the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), based in Boston, are scrambling to issue guidelines and standards. CERES, a coalition of more than 50 investor, environmental, religious, labor and social-justice groups, has launched a global-reporting initiative to set environmental benchmarks for corporate reports. London's Institute of Social and Ethical Account Ability, a lobbying group, has established recommendations for standards for social and ethical reporting and developed accreditation procedures for professionals in this area...
...harsh techno beats all find their way into an eminently digestible mix. The band has undeniable indie cred: they've sampled Charlie Parker, scored a British hit with a song based on the work of classical composer Henryk Grecki and had their songs remixed by Autechre, Bola and Global Communication. Despite all this, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better three-minute pop song than "B Line," their single from this summer...
...increasing complexity of today's global community demands a more sensitive, nuanced line. One without an everyman tip. With a fountain pen, the angles and curves of one's unique penmanship are made clear, the ambiguities and hesitations of the writing struggle as plain as day. The technocracy shall not survive...
...cosmopolitan virus does raise questions about the globalization of epidemics, and some analysts believe climate change may be having an effect on the spread of such diseases. "You could never with any certainty tie a disease of this type to global warming," says Gorman. "But there?s an argument being made that climate change may change patterns of disease ?- some plant and animal forms are certainly occurring further north than we?ve ever seen them before." Not much comfort to beleaguered New Yorkers suffering almost nightly pesticide bombardment from the mayor?s helicopters. And if climate change is a factor...