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...Harvard College lacks a unifying vision for what kind of students it wants to produce," says Beth A. Stewart '00, out-going council president. "Part of the outgrowth of the lack of a mission is there is just no community on campus...
...that Watson went home to was an American icon. It was the outgrowth of a debt-ridden maker of scales, time clocks and accounting machines that his father took charge of in 1914--the year Tom Jr. was born. The elder Watson created a fanatically loyal work force at IBM--the company's name since 1924--hanging THINK signs everywhere, leading employee sing-alongs (corporate anthem: Hail to IBM) and dictating everything from office attire (white shirt, dark suit) to policies on smoking and drinking (forbidden on the job and strongly discouraged off it). IBM dominated the market for punch...
...course, language doesn't call women "sluts"; people do. Changing language can only succeed insofar as we change the attitudes of those who speak it. Otherwise, people will consider linguistic alterations a laughable outgrowth of political correctness, forced upon them by an overly sensitive establishment. Society will remain just as frustrated if political correctness leads only to the switching of a few pronouns, and not to thinking deeply about the real nature of gender and gender equality...
...redhead with the elastic face and saucer eyes was the model for scores of comic TV females to follow. She and her show, moreover, helped define a still nascent medium. Before I Love Lucy, TV was feeling its way, adapting forms from other media. Live TV drama was an outgrowth of Broadway theater; game shows were transplanted from radio; variety shows and early comedy stars like Milton Berle came out of vaudeville. I Love Lucy was unmistakably a television show, and Ball the perfect star for the small screen. "I look like everybody's idea of an actress," she once...
Traditional phone companies provide long-distance access through the public switched telephone network, or PSTN. This network has existed for decades, an outgrowth of the early switched networks of Ma Bell...