Word: runge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show was composed of lyrics and tunes by Stephen Sondheim, the much celebrated and/or reviled Broad-way musical theater composer whose works include West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Company. But Sondheim's works have always rung true with words at once witty, humorous and often insightful. To many, he's the one who added drama and humor to that highly formalized entertainment called the Broadway musical. His songs are not merely decorations of an overly ornate storyline nor are they flashy showstoppers. Instead, they are integral components of character development that...
...sell long-distance service. He has since put up numbers worthy of company pitchman Michael Jordan. Anyone who invested $100 in WorldCom stock when the company went public in 1989 would have a holding worth $2,400 today. No telecom company has done better. WorldCom has rung up that performance by connecting an astonishing range of deals. The largest was last year's $12.5 billion acquisition of MFS Communications, a local phone company that had just acquired UUNet. Yet WorldCom remains a little-known empire that serves mainly corporate clients. "Frankly, a lot of their own customers still...
...addition, my brief discussions of Lizzie Borden and William Faulkner, made me remember how luxurious interaction with teachers can be. Forgetting my status on the bottom rung of the Harvard academic ladder, I traded scholastic insights with a professor, something I had never anticipated doing as a first-year. I was even accepted to one of the seminars...
...extremely rude things. Then, with typical hacker aplomb, the prankster asked people to leave their messages (which to my surprise many callers, including my mother, did). This went on for several days until my wife and I figured out that something was wrong ("Hey...why hasn't the phone rung since Wednesday?") and got our phone service restored...
...even Beijing to give lectures about the world beyond Tuonan township. "Only if we liberate our minds can we liberate the country," says Li. Shi Meirong, 52, who lives in the hill village of Lingnan, would like to believe her, but Shi is still on the very first rung of economic development. "Only when you have money can you be master of your fate," she says. "When you're just struggling to get by, it's hard to have bigger visions...