Word: smells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many long years ago, when Dean Harry Lewis was just a lowly professor of computer science, a student walking by his office heard him mutter, "I'd sell my soul for a new computer science/engineering building." This phrase was followed by a bright flash of light and the unmistakable smell of brimstone wafting out from under the closed door...
...think there's a smell that's coming from the basement," said Elisabeth L. Ritter '97, a Winthrop resident. "It was pretty nasty...
...surprising smell emanates from Only the Paranoid Survive (Currency Doubleday; 202 pages; $27.50), a literate new business-technology book from Intel CEO Andy Grove. The first wave comes as he describes how the microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma...
When asked to defend why he was raising revenue by levying a new tax on the use of lavatories in ancient Rome, Emperor Vespasian smugly replied, "Money has no smell." In spite of the unpopularity of this measure, no one could possibly see an ethical conflict in the Emperor's edict. But the reported private favors of "The Corporate Dole" are of a different nature. Unless the Republicans can show in each of the reported cases that the public at large benefited from the privileges granted to private enterprise, these transactions look blatantly unethical, and the monies involved have...
Additionally, Harvard itself can be a barrier; it seems one place that by any other name might smell sweeter. My entryway discussed it the first week from the instant we applied here, the curtain descended and the barrier the tourists bring home cut us off from our classmates, even our friends. Others wear college paraphernalia ad nauseum yet even the mention of Harvard isolates us, because everybody falsely assumes we want them to feel left out. In the end, we are the ones who are isolated...