Word: main
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says he will maintain the existing practice of providing services to student groups, one of HCS' main functions...
...computer system crashed around 10:30 a.m. Friday when Harvard's main e-mail server, known as HUSC, went down and did not come back up until nearly six hours later...
...resembles a modern state university. Five low-lying, heavily fenestrated buildings squat expectantly around a man-made waterfall. Two years ago, this was nothing but a chicken farm. "Microsoft is huge," I mumble numbly. Sensing my confusion, my guides point out that this is just a suburb of the main Microsoft headquarters, which is 25 times as large and looks, when I finally see it, about the size of Minneapolis. Around 20,000 Microserfs work there. Some people call it the Hive. I yawn, feigning a lack of interest. The yawn might have sounded like a moan...
...Monastery of Christ in the desert sits at the end of a bumpy half-hour drive down a ruined red-clay road that wends into the azure sky of northwestern New Mexico like a curl of Christmas ribbon reaching toward heaven. The main sanctuary, fashioned from brown adobe and perched on a small hill, is warmed by burning pinon and scented by freshly baked bread. In the late afternoon the surrounding canyon glows with a purple twilight. At night the waters of the Chama River gossip with the birds, and the stars weave a gossamer blanket overhead. No matter what...
...desire to offer women equal rights in the U.S. armed services [NATION, Nov. 25], we seem to have lost sight of the main purpose--to attain difficult military objectives against strong enemies with maximum efficiency and minimum loss of American lives. The armed services have made a good attempt at enlisting both sexes in these goals, but the losses exceed the gains. EDWARD J. KINGSBURY Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts...