Word: major
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...money on lawn maintenance (and on golf, if you had the credentials to get accepted by a club) became obligatory. [Ed. Note: For those currently striving to fit in, check out the Harvard-insignia golf balls currently democratically available at the COOP for a mere $XXX]. Lawncare became a major summertime preoccupation and a major moneymaking industry. Lawn culture is now the stuff of American iconic legend: through shows like "King of the Hill" and films such as "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Burbs" to ads pushing everything from barbecues to beer, the Man And His Lawn archetype has been canonized...
Still, the report does not offer such concretesolutions for at least one major controversy: thefuture of Harvard's security guard force...
...ended with a discussion of changes to their constitution and by-laws. The major issues discussed was whether or not to have a quorum requirement in order to hold votes at meetings. The committee finally decided to postpone further discussion of this issue until the fall, and approved the rest of the constitution...
...students at community and state colleges the grant increase will have a major effect. Unlike Harvard, these institutions often can not afford to meet a student's entire need...
...funny thing about the Web as a medium is that it's always been plagued by too much content, rather than too little. A now-infamous report issued last summer by the NEC Research Institute announced that for all their inflated stock prices, the major search engines were only covering at best a fraction of the Web. Forrester Research estimates the size of the web at 500-600 million pages; AltaVista, which claims to index the most pages of any major search engine, only covers 150 million. The best bet, the report stated, may be search engines like Metacrawler, which...