Word: mold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the final version of Win '95 ships (next century, perhaps?) Phase One of your master plan will be complete. A generation of college sloth, cut from your exemplary mold, will be born. Programmed to do your bidding, they will lead all users at Harvard down your wise path of computing. The Microsoft Revolution, unfinished when you expectedly left in the late 1970's, will finally be realized...
...beautiful weather, Los Angeles is not a city meant to be traveled underground.) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences didn't nominate Hoop Dreams for a best documentary Oscar. Crime remains frighteningly high. And white flight in some Southern California communities threatens to break up the multiethnic mold that is the secret to the area's past and future success...
...goal, freshman Dan Murphy has been solid and steady, continuing in the mold of this year's strong rookie talent in net. "I can't believe he hasn't gotten more recognition for what he's been doing," Morris said. Biased? Perhaps. But the top-seeded team should have more than enough to advance to Lake Placid...
...actual works by Lewis exhibited (many of her works can be found at Howard and other historically African-American universities) show the artist's prodigious talent. Her bust of Longfellow, cast in the neoclassical Greek-god mold, is particularly compelling, especially considering the limited access Lewis had to artistic training. The exhibit includes Lewis' only known sketch, from her only drawing class, in the "Young Ladies Prepatory Department" at Oberlin College...
Constitutional rights aside, the government often feels pressure to put a lid on activities that are seen as antisocial -- even when the laws don't directly address such conduct. In the LaMacchia case, civil libertarians were disturbed at what they saw as strong-arm tactics: an attempt to mold criminal law according to what the Justice Department wanted. Judge Stearns, in his decision to dismiss the case, suggested that it was up to Congress to amend the copyright laws if it wanted to encourage this sort of prosecution...