Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this week--shortly after lunch on Dec. 23, 1947--the Digital Revolution was born. It happened on a drizzly Tuesday in New Jersey, when two Bell Labs scientists demonstrated a tiny contraption they had concocted from some strips of gold foil, a chip of semiconducting material and a bent paper clip. As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it and switch...
...from the first to address the two-ply issue. Council candidates had raised the toilet paper issue repeatedly before this year, and a simple Web search reveals that this is a concern of college students nationwide. A pair of candidates for MIT's student government in 1993 made two-ply one of their major issues. Toilet paper was the first platform plank of a pair of candidates for Penn State's student council earlier this year (plank No. 2 was the creation of a "nap lounge"). And American University's online newspaper, The Eagle's Web, last year...
Save to the hard disk. Save to a floppy. Just to be sure, copy the file into your fas account. Next to bad commercials, there really is nothing worse than losing a paper...
...evidence in Annenberg seems to suggest otherwise. We urge the Annenberg staff to abandon its heightened militancy and follow the lead of the houses, where, thankfully, the policy goes largely unenforced, and the dining atmosphere is not antagonistic but civil. We also urge Harvard Dining Services to provide paper bags and containers so that students will have the flexibility to eat on the run. Given the almost nonexistent flexibility of the current meal plan, it is heartless to attempt to close this small yet vital loophole in the system...
FORTUNE Business Report gives you everything from Wall Street's day, without the little paper slips. Tuesday: Tech stocks rebound, Fed stands...