Word: supers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer hackers at Virginia Tech enjoy a relatively well-developed computer network. There are at least 25 super computers run by the school's Computer Center. In addition, various departments have their own machines connected to the international network known as the Internet. Every on-campus dorm room is connected to the data network on 9600 baud lines, which are independent of the telephone lines. That means, of course, that you'll have no problems with call waiting interrupting your modern or with roommates who seem to have phone receivers grafted to their face...
...women's) joyfully colliding, with their brass bands and cheerleaders and painted crazies in tow, in cities from Orlando, Florida, to Salt Lake City, Utah. March Madness is one of the nation's three greatest athletic events (the other two are the World Series and the Super Bowl), but it is only part of an underlying phenomenon. Author John Feinstein has described that phenomenon in three books as "a basketball culture," an exploding species of striving that casts ghetto kids with cosmic stars...
...super, Pam Cornell, is terrified she says. "Because of her, she makes living here a good experience...
...Johnson is kind of a super maitre d', a guy who really knows how to work a room," Gelbart explains. But in the book, Burrough and Helyar also portray him as a Machiavellian cutthroat who betrayed numerous colleagues on his way - to the top, a spendthrift who moved the RJR Nabisco headquarters to Atlanta -- callously firing thousands of employees in the process -- in part because he didn't like "bucolic" Winston-Salem, and a derelict CEO who repeatedly misled his shareholders, his employees and his board of directors...
...what constitutes educational fare. A number of stations tried to satisfy the rules by putting a fresh coat of public-service paint on rusty old entertainment shows. Among the programs thrust under the education rubric, according to a study by the Washington-based Center for Media Education, were Super Mario Brothers (cited for demonstrating the importance of "self-confidence"), The Jetsons (for teaching kids what life might be like in the 21st century) and Leave It to Beaver (for promoting the values of "communication and trust...