Word: papering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STRENGTH IN NUMBERS Buying in bulk used to mean hauling a case of toilet paper home from a warehouse club. Now consumers can pool their orders online for "power buys" at www.mercata.com This Web retailer sells consumer electronics, sporting goods, housewares and appliances around the clock. But each day select items are put up for group sale at an initial price--say, $40 for a radio. The more buyers who join the sale by day's end, the lower the price will go. All buyers get the lowest price offered...
...same token, Gogan said the Houses and the Yard residences also generated about 55 tons of paper recycling waste during move- out period--about one-third higher than normal. With recycling charged at $20 per ton, the additional waste costs the College another extra...
Graduate members of the other clubs, who fondly recall the buildings as quiet places for reading the paper or drinking with the boys, rather than open, late night parties, were not fans of the apparent change in the clubs' mission...
Indeed this sort of mythic lore about the law school has been a thorn in the side of HLS administrators for more than two decades. Thanks in part to commercially-successful works like One L. by Scott F. Turow (HLS '78), or The Paper Chase, a book-turned-movie about the darker side of HLS, Harvard has struggled with the notion that one of its most prized graduate schools is less than perfect...
Though he did not write a thesis, Bush will be graduating with honors in biological anthropology and is publishing a paper along with Professor of Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham and Cory L. Costanzo '99 in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The paper, which is about how predation pressures affect baboon group size, grew out of a research seminar Bush took his junior year...