Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have taken Computer Science 50 or that fifth class. Maybe we should have just gone to Brown. These are some of the thoughts that occurred to me during my Hell Week (except the part about Brown; I mean, really). The point is that our campus suffers an emotional shift every year and causes a decline in our quality of life. So how do we counter...
...course the microchip, like every new technology, brings viruses. Increased reliance on technology has led to the threat of growing inequality and a two-tier society. Workers and students not properly trained will be left behind, opening the way for the social disruptions that accompanied the shift to the industrial age. At a time when they are most needed, schools have been allowed to deteriorate, and worker-training programs have fallen prey to budget austerity. For all the spending on computers and software ($800 billion in the U.S. during the past five years), the most obvious investment has not been...
...costs fell by half. The rule (amended to 18 months) became known as Moore's law. Though it frustrates consumers--it's the reason that $2,500 PC you bought will be obsolete in a year--the law has given Intel a road map, allowing the company to shift resources ahead of demand rather than jumping crazily after the fact...
...National Association of Colleges and Employers reports that the class of '98 has the rosiest economic prospects in a decade; but even graduating seniors at the most prestigious universities are risk averse, very conservative in their career choices, as though the ground could shift at any minute. "There used to be much more willingness to take chances in choosing what to major in or what profession to pursue," says Yale historian Stephen Lassonde. "Now everyone wants to go straight into a consulting job the day after graduation. That way they know they'll have a job and can start paying...
...majority have yet to see tangible benefits from the ANC?s moderate economic policy. To ensure their support at the polls, the party is likely to reclaim the banner of liberation by intensifying rhetorical attacks on white economic privilege. But these attacks are unlikely to translate into a policy shift...