Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outgoing president Michael J. Passante '99 said that because the upcoming year is not a major election year, the group will be able to shift its focus away from campaigning for Democratic candidates...
...Well, we had a barge overturn up on the north end of the river last year that was about a three- or four-day emergency, and we had kids sheltered in place for hours and hours and hours and had to wait for the wind to shift so we would be permitted to take the buses in and get out as many children as we could before the wind pattern changed again. Amazing. I thought to myself, I didn't know when I took this job that I would be issued a hard hat and a gas mask...
...shift in work culture is complex, but there's one really practical factor that accounts for the flourishing world of small business: you can do it fast and do it cheap. You can replicate all the functions of a fancy corporate office in your two-room quarters in the office park. This holiday season, computers are packed with such goodies as 333-MHz speed, fat hard drives, plenty of memory, bundled office suites that take you from spreadsheets to word processing to building your own website--all for under $1,000. Rube Goldberg-like contraptions that scan, fax, print...
...this instance, Meier inverted what he calls the "public" and "private" space. The entrance is adjacent to the private rooms, the bedrooms and studies, and a guest must move through them first to access the public region of entertainment. This shift echoes the transition from the inland side of the house to the waterside. This differentiation is manifest in the exterior construction as well. The proliferation of windows facing the water is distinct from any other wall. The entire house is composed along a diagonal that mimics the slope down to the water...
...Five year ago], if you had an offer from an I-Bank or consulting firm, you took it," says Gary L. Albert, president of Wetfeet.com, a San-Francisco job researching company that profiles firms. "There has been a market shift to careers that are more entrepreneurial...