Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal level, the connections to Harvard run deep," she wrote to the nominating committee. Hamburg's parents both served on Harvard's Faculty, and she met her husband their first year when they lived in the same dorm...
...economy Net stocks are now up against some old-economy fundamentals they haven't faced before. Rising interest rates are a big deal. The 30-year Treasury-bond yield popped over 6% last week, its highest level in more than a year, and could well stay there. Speculative stocks (and Internet defines the category) tend to get hard hit when higher rates threaten to slow the economy and the market. There are also basic questions about Internet bellwethers, including AOL (Will AT&T shut it out of cable access?) and Amazon (Can it reverse slowing revenue growth...
...everyone got the joke immediately, including the guy Myers brought in to direct. "The first time I read the script and saw Mike do it, I wondered if it was going to work," admits Jay Roach. "I wasn't a big fan of that level of camp, so it took a while for me to get it. Since then, many people have told me they didn't get it, either, until they shared the viewing experience with their kids...
Users looking for more practical applications might wait for later versions of Cye. It cannot manage stairs, so forget about its answering the door if you live in a split-level home. And while you can put Cye down in a room and automatically set up a zigzagging vacuum path, it's not recommended since the optional vacuum tends to get fouled in its electric cord. A cordless model is in the works. Likewise, a camera is being considered, which would make navigating--and Stein harassment--that much simpler...
...during the decade ending in 1997, from 1.8 million to 1.5 million; on the other, the number of people behind bars or on probation for drunken driving during the same period nearly doubled, from 270,100 to 513,200. Some experts believe the declining number of arrests indicate a level of success in getting social drinkers to sober up behind the wheel -- in part caused by the aging of the nation?s motorist population. But the rise in the number of those under some sort of correctional supervision, say observers, also suggests that there is a group of problem drinkers...