Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Textbook prices and classroom space were discussed at the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) meeting yesterday...
...there was talk of the government's spending billions to build the "information superhighway." Then that highway sprang up overnight. Although the roots of the Internet are in the Defense Department, the Web's sudden arrival as a society-transforming force is largely the result of capitalism in almost textbook-pure form: not IBM or even Microsoft, but vast crowds of garage-shop inventors and hungry entrepreneurs...
Harvard students not only rely on books brought from home for light study break entertainment. According to employees at several bookstores in the Square, many often stray from the textbook section, venture into children's books for purchases that demand less of their minds and their wallets...
...here to read, to study and to learn. But we are also here to meet people, to try new activities and to pursue our passions. Grad students, too, are pursuing their passions. Unfortunately for you, however, their passions include memorizing the books carried by The Coop's textbook division under the label "Recommended Reading." You just cannot compete...
...degree, anyone who is a member of society (as we all are) does not "stop" participating in civic life for the purposes of academics. For our own education we should not, and in reality, we cannot: we are still participating in the economy every time we buy a textbook; we are still participating in democracy every time we do or do not cast a vote; we are still making a political statement every time we purchase a product made by Nabisco or Nike...