Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trust is of the essence in any communications regime," says Stewart Brand, co-founder of the Sausalito, California-based Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, one of the first and best-known online gathering places. Having seen what havoc anonymity can create, the well's creators decided to make every poster accountable for his or her messages. Years later, some well users asked that a portion of the system be set aside for anonymous discussions, arguing that it would allow people to speak more freely about volatile topics. "It was shut down within a week by acclamation," says Brand. "The pathology...
During her 23-year marriage, Margaret Randolph could have qualified as a poster woman for spousal abuse. Her husband Gary Randolph, a sometime dock worker, would get drunk and then "bring out his guns," Margaret says. He would shoot up the house as their three children, now ages 22, 15 and 13, dived for cover under the beds. According to Margaret, one night Gary shot her in the arm with a pistol. Afraid to report the incident to the police, she packed up the children a few months later and moved from their St. Louis home to Chatsworth, Georgia...
...Basically, we started a year ago, getting as wide a range of names as we could. We put up a poster, asking for names," Henshon said...
Hyun said conservatives have tried to portray affirmative action as a conflict between "meritocracy and egalitarianism," and have used Asian-Americans as "poster children" because some have accused the [University of California] system of capping Asian-American enrollment through quotas...
...equally successful attempt to affirm gay dignity, the current issue also contains the following gem, quoted in The Crimson: "Truth in Advertising? "The poster originally read 'Come hear Barney Frank'.. Later his name was blacked out and the word 'faggot' written across it..."" Apparently, Peninsula believes that in service of the twin goals of truth in advertising and affirming gay dignity, we should call all gays "faggots...