Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the same time, the government issued harsh martial-law decrees ordering leaders of the prodemocracy movement, "important figures who incited and organized this counterrevolutionary insurrection in the capital," to turn themselves in for "lenient treatment." The decrees set up a spy-and-report network, complete with 18 telephone hot lines, so that citizens could help round up dissidents. Fearful of arrest, student leaders who had survived the carnage went underground or fled the city. The astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, a leading dissident who was prevented by the government from dining with George Bush during the President's visit last February...
...September, the Med School unveiled a plan that would would blend medical research with private-sector profit. The program--which the school has begun implementing--created a $30 million dollar venture capital program that would market the discoveries of faculty members through a network of affiliated companies...
...Radcliffe College provides a room of one's own," panelist Rose Coser told the crowd. A professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Coser said the women's institution "provides a network--something that comes natural to men but not to women...
...This "network," other panelists said, is created by the women who participate in scholarly research programs at the Bunting Institute, the Murray Research Center and the Schlesinger Library...
...going to buy into the legend, sporting the sweatshirt and ring, joining the Harvard club? Or are we going to lead our lives away from school connections and attitudes, continue to say we went to school simply "in Boston?" We are in a position to immerse ourselves in a network of fellow Harvard achievers or abnegate the experience entirely...