Word: imprint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cyberspace brands are not exempt from an old law of advertising that says share of mind leads to share of market. It's no wonder, then, that Web companies are widely dependent on the tube, as well as newspapers, magazines (thank you very much), radio and billboards, to imprint their brand names on as many brains as possible--particularly consumers who aren't online...
...Most of all I learned something about the human heart," he said. "I wanted to leave my imprint on [my students]--send them to Harvard...
...country to track down and put away criminals who might otherwise have gone free. DNA is the biggest thing to happen in crime solving since fingerprints--and it's likely to be a lot more useful. Fingerprints can be used only when a perpetrator happens to leave a clean imprint. But DNA can be taken from hair, sweat or saliva. It even has a convenient tendency to fall off skin, leaving genetic markers behind...
...coeducational policy that stretches from its founding; a healthy mix of pre-professional and liberal arts students, including hotel-school students; and a rural environment with beautiful gorges, waterfalls and tracts of forest. There is a proud ROTC heritage here and a supercomputer, a distinct architecture and the continued imprint of Ezra Cornell's educational ideals. Frankly, Cornell has a lot to say for itself, without the constant Harvard comparisons. Does the comparison fall in the Ithaca forest if no one in Cambridge hears the sound...
...rail-riding drifter and fugitive who may be responsible for as many as eight murders in Texas, Kentucky and Illinois. But his uncle, whose name is Rafael Resendiz Ramirez, tells the Associated Press that his nephew's real name is Angel Resendiz Resendiz. The killings bearing the suspect's imprint, say authorities, have all occurred near train tracks and been brutally violent, often the result of bludgeoning. What police don?t know, and what worries them most, is where Ramirez/Resendiz is now, and what might have caused him to go on this suspected killing spree. All of those concerns prompted...