Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conversation between my friends and I turned to the influence Annenberg dining hall had had in our lives. Why had Harvard decided to feed all 1600-plus first-years in the same cavernous dining hall? Didn't they realize how intimidating it was to walk in and have to sit with someone you barely knew from section because you couldn't find your roommates among the mass? Sure, it was fine now, but Annenberg had been no fun in the beginning...
...Artisan Entertainment, recognizing the success that the Blair Witch advertising brought them, developed a devilish little pattern in their marketing strategy. First, they design an ultra-cool web page. Then, they show their enigmatic preview to those same people who were sucked in by Blair Witch hype. Finally, they sit back and watch the web geeks do the work, generating more buzz and rumor than substance...
When the Dean's Selection Committee convenes for the first time this Sunday, the group will be looking for a rare visionary who can build the Institute into an academic center fit to sit alongside Harvard's nine faculties...
...will invariably be consumed with a desire to exercise your most neglected talents. While, granted, they are perhaps neglected because you don't happen to have much talent at all in that area, if these aspects of your identity are never taken out for a twirl, they will sit like a sulky wallflower in the dance of your...
...corporation's molding its products to European tastes. "Disney had to let go pretty quickly of its strict codes, replacing many of its American-trained senior staff with European officials who had a better sense of what would work here," says Crumley. "So there are a lot more sit-down restaurants compared with the initial emphasis on fast food, and those restaurants serve wine. Prices on souvenirs and accommodations are lower, too." The rival Parc Ast?rix, based on the popular French cartoon series, just can?t compete in Disney?s league: France prefers its escapist fantasy strictly American...