Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them as you walk through campus. Some of them are dialing as they cruise through the Yard, others briskly chatting as they linger near the steps of Sever. Are these folks so popular that being inaccessible for several hours would be fatal to their social lives? Why all of sudden is our campus studded with cell phone owners...
...rationales against phones is that in our enclosed universe one is always near an accessible telephone; from someone's room to a Centrex or a friendly pay phone, it isn't hard to place a call. But for pay phones you need to find 35 cents or remember your calling card number. Always a pain. And Centrexes have the whole privacy issue. Someone calls up and you hear the customary static and background noise. "How are you?" And then you can broadcast your personal business over a rather wide radius. Not so fun. And you can only call Harvard people...
...think we are going to see a Chicanostudies department in the near future, but I wouldlike to see more courses in the existingdepartments," Ramos said. "I think this would be avery good start...
While zigzagging the map, Wilson heard somecomments again and again. Near-universal concernsincluded continuing Radcliffe's commitment toundergraduates in some capacity, protecting theinstitution's financial assets, strengthening thealumnae network and making Radcliffe a force forchanging societal perceptions of women's roles...
...sales a year, mostly to the automotive industry. EMP is basking in several years of record-breaking sales. "I don't think it's affected the Big Three at all," says general manager Steve Novak, who notes that forecasts for next year's car sales are for the same near record numbers the industry achieved last year. Not only is Novak not planning any layoffs; he is buying two new high-speed presses and installing a new sorting machine to improve quality and efficiency. In Detroit at the Chene Trombley Market, a convenience store across Interstate 94 from the huge...