Word: recentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though similar bills have failed in recent years, this bill has a better chance of passing because it has strong political backing, Barrios said, noting that the Massachusetts Hospital Association has endorsed...
...that right, the government seems to be changing its mind. New techniques of encryption--the making of codes--allow personal computers to encode documents in ways that are difficult or sometimes impossible for the most advanced super computers to crack. These technologies, for the first time in recent memory, allow private individuals to hide their documents from government view. In response, the Clinton Administration has proposed new means of restricting the right to privacy...
Simply put, as an interesting and inspirational speaker, Greenspan just doesn't match up to the world leaders and Cold War heroes who have paraded through the Yard in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that Greenspan will not--in fact, cannot--say anything of import, because if he did, it would cause significant shocks to the world economy. In a now-famous incident in 1996, Greenspan commented that gains in the stock market at the time might have been caused by "irrational exuberance." In response to his skeptical comments, markets around the world tumbled...
Harvard doesn't excel in the diversity of its speakers; the vast majority of Commencement speakers in recent decades have been world political leaders. One of things I dislike about the Institute of Politics' seeming monopoly on big-name speeches at Harvard is that the majority of outside leaders who come through campus are politicians, as if they are the only noteworthy people and role models in the world. We need more scholars, artists and true heroes at Commencement. Or how about a controversial figure? I suppose that in order to withstand Harvard's rigorous standards for selection, most Commencement...
...lists some recent hot sellers, proof of the customers' diversity: Horns and Crescent, a Cambridge-based pagan magazine; Tibetan jewelry and books; and Conversations With God, Neale Donald Walsch's New York Times bestseller...