Word: spate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following a recent spate of homophobic incidents in several Houses and a nationwide increase in reported hate crimes, students and some of the University's most prominent Faculty spoke on this issue during a panel discussion Wednesday night...
...With a spate of fresh programming and a re-energized attempt to place their content on the Internet by the end of the calendar year, Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV) continues its uphill battle to attract a larger audience from a student body largely unaware of their presence...
...advanced hoaxsters don't just fish. A recent spate of e-mails claiming to be from Microsoft tell Windows users that to update their system for Y2K, they need to download a patch attached to the mail. I needn't tell you how dangerous it can be to open attachments in suspicious-looking e-mail--again, this is how Melissa started...
BUGGING OUT Since the new VW Beetle became the unofficial car of Gen X, designers have taken its lessons to heart. Witness this spate of funky, bubbly, environmentally friendly concept cars at recent trade shows. Honda's Fuya-jo, which means "all-night entertainment district," boasts a turntable-like steering wheel and mixer-like dashboard. Also shown: the Norwegian Think electric car; Nissan's Hypermini EV, which goes up to 100 miles on a single battery charge; Honda's fuel-cell prototype FCX. What would Herbie...
...gadgetry and the nearly universal advent of dress-down Fridays, office life at the end of the century was supposed to get simpler, wasn't it? But in the era of digital wizardry and globalization, rules of business behavior have become more important to us than ever. A spate of new books tackle the problem of gentility in the workplace from a number of angles. A sampling...