Word: send
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Divestment is never a decision to be made lightly, but the evidence has become overwhelming that Texaco is malignant and unjust in its actions. We need to send a clear message that its blatant prejudice and social irresponsibility will no longer go unnoticed. Harvard is in a prime position to take the first step...
...turmoil in distant markets might be barely audible when Wall Street is roaring like Niagara Falls. But for those invested overseas--through mutual funds or directly, in stocks--the noise would be more like a foghorn in their bedroom. The clamor of social, political and economic uncertainty just might send prices cascading lower...
...companies come out with hand-held devices, including the first really usable palm-top computer from U.S. Robotics. The year also included the nearly incessant squeal of Internet hype--and a stock market that couldn't get enough of hot-concept technology issues. It was all enough to send droves of Americans out to buy...a game machine...
...weeks into the internship, I noticed an annoucement in the business section of the New York Times asking students to send in stories from their summer jobs. Knowing that my job would make an interesting anecdote, I wrote a short account of my experiences as a fact-checker, concluding with the thought that while fact-checking may seem like an exercise in meaninglessness, nothing could be more critical to the production and success of a magazine. With a naivete that stuns me in retrospect, I mailed...
...would be easy to blame the reporter, but for the sheer ignorance behind sending the thing in, I can credit no one but myself. I had aimlessly wandered into a swamp of mutual jealousy between magazines and newspapers for which nothing at the Office of Career Services could have prepared me. I had no idea that many newspaper reporters go out of their way to make magazines look trivial, and magazine copy-editors clip the "Corrections" columns from the papers and send them to their friends for fun. It had never occurred to me that by tossing words into...