Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third period began, the momentum began to shift to the Bears as Harvard's play became sloppy against Brown's swarming defense...
...make some noise. They know that for every AOL, 10 dot.coms are going to be DOA before the frenzy is over. Within a few years, the windfall could end for old media too. Dot.com spending is expected to plateau once the winning companies are in command and more consumers shift to the Net. It could result in an Internet take on an old Marxist theme: When new media arrived to hang old media, the networks sold them the rope...
...fuzzy intimacy of the recently designed service area clashes discordantly with the cavernous gloom of the Eliot House dining area. The dining hall does not integrate efficiency and intimacy but grafts the two onto each other like some ghastly sideshow freak. Any dining experience there is a fitful shift between discomfort and comfort, between Harvard and home...
...This shift appears in many classes, where, instead of demanding that students first master the scholarship that has evolved over the centuries, the first day begins with theories of postmodernist thought or deconstructionism...
...speed pursuit of a state of grace that keeps eluding him. Frank, who in Martin Scorsese's new film Bringing Out the Dead is played in a sort of stunned frenzy by Nicolas Cage, is a New York City paramedic working Hell's Kitchen on the aptly named graveyard shift. He's been on the job too long, and lately its only compensation--the rush, the high of saving a life--has eluded him. He's famished, but he can't eat. He's exhausted, but his sleep is haunted, particularly by the vision of a young woman who died...