Word: summed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I look at the sum total of my experiences as a first-year, it is not difficult to see why Harvard's very name is its most effective recruiting tool. For there is a reason for that name. Harvard is "Harvard" because of the classes its students take, the experiences they share and the other students with whom they meet and interact...
...candidates whose being is defined, whose views are shaped and whose success is measured by their ability to win votes. Clinton, who has been campaigning ceaselessly since junior high school, approaches politics as an obsessive host, something for this group, something for that set, an endless round of dim sum. Bob Dole, master of the Senate floor, is a tireless vote hound as well. When Dole says of legislation, as he always does, that he wants to "see how it looks" on the Senate floor, he isn't talking about the shape of a specific bill as much...
Here's one way to spend $30 million: Fujitsu, rolling in cash from its profitable semiconductor and computer business, is investing that healthy sum to create an "artificial life" program for personal computers. The flashy new technology will one day let real-world humans breed E-world "creatures" that will help out with mundane computer tasks. Possible examples include byte-based Rottweilers that will fetch your electronic newspaper and virtual vultures that can nibble away at electronic "trash...
Naturally, the diverging life situations of men and women favor divergent political ideologies. Cut off from daily contact with the weak and the needy, and hypnotized by the zero-sum ethic of televised sports, men were bound to be seduced by the social Darwinism of the political right, with its vision of the world as a vast playing field for superstar linebackers and heroic entrepreneurs on leave from The Fountainhead...
After debating whether to pay the money to have the University mediate the dispute, the Eliot House Committee passed a proposal on Sunday to pay $94.50, or half the sum of money demanded by Currier...