Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many students, involvement in the Cambridge community through the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) or the IOP is already part of their extracurricular lives. But for others, Harvard might as well be in a vacuum, sealed off from its city by ivy walls. The College is in a position to change that image and reality by teaching us about Cambridge's history and today's local communities during the first days of our time here. With this information, we would better understand our new home and new neighbors. The history lesson would be well complemented by tours of the city...
...Padgett believes that democratization, which has seen the ruling party lose its majority in the legislature, has created a power vacuum which is being exploited by criminals and petty officials in a rising tide of violence. "Public insecurity is at an all-time high. The massacre may serve to make Mexicans realize they have to do something to stop the 'Columbianization' of their country...
...professor and longtime Intel executive, as the new president and Grove's successor. And behind Barrett is a chain of bright, driven engineers all lusting for the top spot. Meet intense contenders like Intel V.P.s Paul Otellini and Sean Maloney, and you'll have little worry about a leadership vacuum. Chairman emeritus Moore sometimes comes to the office, looks around and says he sheepishly thinks, "I'm not sure I could get a job here today...
...benign revolution--and Fairchild was a breeding ground for revolutionaries. Early computers were fast, but attempts to make them faster were running into a thermodynamic wall: every time you asked the computer to think harder, it got hotter, like a grad student sweating his orals. The heat came from vacuum tubes, which acted as giant on-off switches, holding and releasing electrical charges. (A central "computer" tallied up all the on-off signals as ones and zeroes, and translated the results into real mathematics.) But the tubes, which sucked up huge amounts of energy, represented a limit on the power...
...again." Greenspan is on guard, a renowned numbers cruncher who keeps tabs on the most obscure corners of the economy. Robin Leigh-Pemberton, former governor of the Bank of England, once remarked that at conferences Greenspan was likely to back up his predictions by citing such obscure data as vacuum-cleaner sales in Iowa...