Word: trust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Making a meaningful contribution to society is not easy, particularly when armed only with a freshly minted college degree and a big heart. If nothing more, it is our task this year, before moving on from this four-year indulgence, to contemplate the inequalities before us and trust that our peers are doing the same...
...People have lost trust in all political elites--no matter where they stand in the political spectrum," he said...
...decided to build personal computers and needed a PC operating system. (Computers are born naked; they need operating systems to be presentable.) Mammoth, blue-chip IBM employed thousands of capable software builders, and didn't trust a single one of them; IBM hired Microsoft to build its operating system. Microsoft bought Q-DOS from a company called Seattle Computer Products and retailored...
Honest-to-goodness muckraking, though, was on the way. At McClure's weekly magazine, Ida Minerva Tarbell, daughter of a Pennsylvania oil producer who had been forced to eat dust by John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust, was making life hell for the wizened John D. with a 19-part series on Standard Oil that ran from 1902 to 1905. Her work, plus the reporting of a few other intrepid journalists, notably at the hotly competitive mass-circulation papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, became Teddy Roosevelt's big stick in his successful drive to bust...
1910s As powerful corporations emerge, the government becomes active in regulating them. The Standard Oil Trust is broken up. A War Industries Board manages production...