Word: nascent
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...through cell phones, among other new media. Several said the strike was necessary to avoid missing out on the new revenue stream, a sacrifice they feel they made 20 years ago by settling for a small share of sales of DVDs, when that was a nascent format. "The guild really botched DVDs in the '80s," says one children's TV writer. "They were not gonna make the same mistake with the Internet. It comes down to not being screwed...
...Boulevard. Located in a converted storefront at 130th Street, Obama's headquarters were leased from a real estate office just two weeks ago. Last Thursday a stable of supporters worked the phones with unflagging energy, enumerating their candidate's merits with the fervor of the converted. But like any nascent operation, it was still ironing out the kinks. "Someone came in on Monday and donated a printer, but we keep running out of ink," says Karole Dill Barkley, one of about 20 steady volunteers. Workers hawk campaign buttons to fund replacement cartridges...
...secondary concentrations gives the Committee an opportunity to do far more for ethnic studies than ever before. If it is serious about promoting ethnic studies at Harvard, it should begin right away to push for its own secondary concentration, which would assume responsibility for the College’s nascent course offerings in Asian American, Latino, and Native American studies.Lastly, given that Asian Americans represent about a fifth of all Harvard undergraduates, Asian-American studies is not only an important field of inquiry in and of itself, but is also especially relevant to the Harvard community. We understand, however...
...Both Chavez supporters and opponents said in interviews before the vote that they didn't believe the no vote had a chance. Despite that atmosphere, and a persistent opposition conviction that the results could be fraudulent, the nascent student movement helped galvanize many detractors to vote. When students took to the streets to protest the forced shutdown of the opposition-aligned television station Radio Caracas Television earlier this year, the country had all but forgotten that the universities were one of the very few sectors of society left that was not yet controlled by the government. On that occasion, young...
...Because of the architect’s imaginative thinking, the cost was up,” said Knowles, who was involved in the nascent stages of FAS’ $740 building boom that included LISE. “But the only way we can go forward in science is to establish these facilities centrally...