Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The geeks have usurped an old financial term, disintermediation, and given it a new meaning to describe what happened to Britannica. To them it means the removal of middlemen, the intermediaries who smooth the operation of any economy--folks like travel agents, stockbrokers, car dealers and traveling salesmen. These people...
Both grapple with a universal truth: boys have complicated relationships with their mothers. Pollack, who is alarmed by what he calls the "silent crisis" of "normal" boys, says we live in a confused society in which mothers are afraid to cling to their sons. On the one hand, we ask...
Abraham Lincoln took the band with him to Gettysburg on a special train and at one point escaped to a seat up front with his beloved musicians. The band played a Lincoln favorite, the hymn Old Hundredth, right after the prayer that opened the cemetery dedication in which Lincoln gave...
Reality is not exactly the first word that springs to mind when thinking of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. The first television show explicitly designed for the one- to two-year-old set, it centers on the comical activities of four fuzzy creatures who speak in baby talk...
"Our general philosophy is that because we aresignificant employer of trade workers in Bostonand Cambridge, we feel it is important to supportcertain values that unions are representative of,meaning adequate wages and benefits and youthapprenticeship programs," Touborg said.