Word: kind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...career in measurements." But measuring devices had come to account for only 17% of HP's volume, and a collapse in Asian markets turned them into a drag on overall profits. Those now come mainly from computers and related equipment, but HP got into that field as a kind of sideline and, with its attention divided, has long been regarded as trailing more innovative rivals. "We fell behind in the early days of the Internet," admits Platt...
...transplanting myself 3,000 miles seemed exciting and different. Most of the people I knew were either going to University of California at Berkeley or Stanford; my best friend and I chose to go to East Coast schools, Georgetown and Harvard respectively. It was supposed to be some kind of statement of independence. I was out at school on my own, and theoretically I was supposed to start at the bottom again: being a first-year, trying out new activities, finding new friends...
...never before have you been surrounded by throngs of those just like you, and never again will you find yourself in such a unique social environment. Unless you take a step back to examine Harvard from a distance, to acknowledge the sheer weirdness of the whole thing, this kind of "unique" can seem like a very bad thing. For instance, it's easy to get discouraged with Harvard's social life. Some first-years are lucky enough to land in an entryway full of friends who feel like they've known each other forever, or at the very least...
Feeling like you have a difficult task ahead? Take heart. The uniqueness of Harvard's social system is not all bad. I said before that you are surrounded by people climbing ladders--but they're not all climbing the same one. Each ladder is one-of-a-kind, with its own destination and its own means of getting there. Yes, we follow traditional paths to success, but there are different paths and variations on the definition of success. Look around you. Your classmates are making the same realizations you are. They are learning and growing, finding at the same time...
...thuggery to get where it is today, and Thaci is well known as a hard-liner within the organization," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "While the Times story cites no direct evidence of his involvement in any specific killing, he?s certainly never condemned that kind of behavior." Besides the alleged internecine killings, the KLA is also known to have targeted Serb and Gypsy civilians, moderate ethnic Albanian politicians and those it considered traitors. "As a hard-liner, Thaci has a very low threshold for calling people ?traitors? -? it could be an ethnic Albanian postman working...