Word: shoring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington this week. Even Jesse Jackson, who only a few months ago expressed ambivalence about the march, has now become so attached to the minister's cause that some believe he is trying to take it over. Jackson may think that playing a prominent role in the march will shore up his claim to being black America's undisputed head man, which has been threatened by the emergence of Colin Powell. More likely, it will only help cement Farrakhan's exalted position...
...will take more than sweatshirts and coffee mugs to shore up the security of the Internet. The network was designed to be open and easily accessible, and new Internet software, like Sun Microsystems' Java, adds a whole new layer of insecurity. Java can liven up a Website with movies and animations sent to visitors' computers as little applications, or "applets." Java is supposed to screen these applets to make sure they can't do any damage to the computer that receives them. But to Sun's--and Netscape's--acute embarrassment, the version that appeared in Netscape's latest browser...
Where have they gone to, my brother and sister, mother and father? Off along the shore, perhaps...
...members of the Joint Committee for the University are Candace Corvery, associate vice president for human resources, Karen Davis, director of administrative management at the Medical School, Timothy R. Manning, director of labor relations, Richard S. Rosenbloom, Sarnoff professor of business administration and Eleanor G. Shore, a member of the faculty at the Medical school...
...increase its competitiveness, Partners Healthcare, which already consists of Brigham and Women's Mass General, McLean and Spalding hospitals, is now in the process of merging with the North Shore Medical Center, which also has some teaching function, according to Pieper...