Word: key
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, my mailbox was predictably flooded with paper. Between curriculum guides and rooming forms and unsolicited letters from the German department, it looked like Harvard was a primary culprit for deforestation. Along with all that paper came an abundance of something I didn't expect: advice. Everyone from Crimson Key to the Harvard Independent had wisdom to impart: Compete in intramurals. Be open-minded. Make new friends. Take German...
Coop: 1. Where tourists go to buyHarvard sweatshirts and key chains; where you willstand in line for hours at the beginning of eachsemester to buy overpriced textbooks. 2. Rhymeswith "loop" not "blow pop." 3. A massivebureaucrat that pays smaller and smaller andsmaller rebates to its members each year...
...correspondent Jay Carney. "He?s been in the Senate 23 years. He?s 65 years old. If he was ever going to run, he might as well do it now." Hatch made his unofficial announcement Tuesday in his favorite public-speaking venue ?- the Senate hallway -? and promised a low-key formal announcement in a few days. And he?s warning that "my life has been a long string of surprises...
...stars and race horses have been brought into service this past spring as metaphors for IPOs from web sites such as TheStreet.com and iVillage that tripled or quadrupled on their first day of trading. But when the highbrow site Salon when public yesterday the image was a flat flounder. Key was Salon's pioneering participation in a Net experiment that uses a Dutch auction to set the IPO price before trading. The Dutch format helped kill any big first-day run-up but it also cut out the Wall Street middlemen. Early shareholders may have missed...
...glut hurts in another key way. It creates well-capitalized competition for companies that have already gone public. This is an underappreciated phenomenon. Each new Internet IPO equips yet another company to steal business from the incumbents. Instead of one online pet store, there are three. That pushes all companies in the same line of enterprise further from the future profits that, to a degree, all Internet investors count...