Word: grasp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standard bearers of the computer revolution, the techies who run America Online have a pretty shaky grasp of basic math. Let's see: you're the most successful online service in Internet history, with membership rolls shooting up in only three years from 500,000 to 7 million. You're about to launch a snazzy TV ad campaign built around a radical change in pricing policy: from stiff, pay-by-the-hour bills to unlimited all-you-can-eat access to the Internet for $19.95 a month. Yet you have added only a modest number of modems...
...films but would rather watch Beavis and Butt-head. Hey, dude, listen up. As a junior at Carnegie Mellon University, I am offended by such a blanket statement. Believe it or not, there are mature, intelligent college students who can understand, follow and appreciate foreign films. We can even grasp all the topics that gramps knew. Your attitude is just part of the epidemic of Generation-X bashing, which is getting tiresome. I and others like me would not be where we are today if we weren't focused, determined and concerned about issues larger than ourselves. SAROJA RAMAPRASAD Pittsburgh...
Nonetheless, the Beanpot remains the sole chance for area women's hockey teams to grasp the Boston bragging rights...
...time), I have discovered in the last three months that there are many more teams I feel good about supporting. Behind each team is a town or city, and now that I know people from so many more towns and cities, I feel I have a more comfortable grasp on the sports world and the world in general. When someone at home mentions the San Diego Chargers, I can now say that I know two people from San Diego and that they're actually okay, though they mourned for a while after Pittsburgh defeated them. When someone insults...
...bitter truth: the new combination therapies are of little use to 90% of the people suffering from the disease. In Africa, India, Thailand and to a growing extent Central and Eastern Europe, the treatment's price tag of up to $20,000 a year puts it way beyond the grasp of all but the superrich. "With this discovery, the AIDS gap only becomes wider," laments Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the U.N.'s AIDS program. To most AIDS researchers, it has become painfully obvious that drugs of any kind, no matter how effective, are not the solution...