Word: hugeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem that is omnipresent for budgets of all sizes is that the demand for funds always outnumbers funds available. The Student Union of Washington University in St. Louis has a huge budget of $740,000 for student groups, yet student body president Peter B. Steffen says annually initial group requests total eight times the available funds...
...this argument has a lot of appeal. People generally like Harvard Square, and do not want to see it razed to build a strip mall. However, within guidelines, franchise operations have the right to exist in the Square. Letting chain stores operate does not have to mean letting in huge McDonald's arches; such signs can be prohibited by the city, as can other ornamentation the community deems offensive...
Americans discovered their insatiable hunger for the electronic, which would create huge communal audiences: some 60,000 households had radio sets in 1922; more than 10 million had sets in 1929. The country began to turn itself into an image-saturated, stimulus-bombarded factory of desire. By the '70s and '80s, with the explosion of electronic communications, U.S. popular and kitsch culture would dominate the globe as no other had, with no limit in sight. So it was in the '20s that America's cultural fantasies started to become, for good or ill, the world...
...play-thing of interest groups. It is amazing to think that lobbying groups feel they can convince more of the populace than the state representatives to get their law passed, but this is precisely what has happened. The recent advertising boom in proposition politics can be traced to the huge infusion of money from outside groups, who use California as a battleground for their national concerns. Tobacco giants and conservative think tanks as well as drug-legalization activists have acted around spending limits and disclosure laws to affect the outcome. National media attention has often only exacerbated the problem, presenting...
Much like Garoon, Rishi Gupta '99 says he discovered WHRB sports by chance. "I'd never done anything like this before I got to college," he says. "But I've always been a huge sports fan. I figured I'd write sports for the school paper, but I never thought I'd be doing this." Gupta has worked with WHRB for two-and-a-half years, and will be co-director of sports next year when Garoon retires...