Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...notable accomplishment has been discovering a company called Iomega long before the wing tips in downtown Manhattan did. Iomega, based in Roy, Utah, makes devices for computers called Zip drives and Jaz drives that enable users to store massive amounts of information speedily, reliably and affordably. In early 1995, various Fools, as the participants call themselves, began posting news about the first Zips to hit the market. They soon put their money where their modems were and reaped the rewards. Many of the earliest posters on the Iomega board have seen their initial investment rise more than...
...Shaath's well-appointed home--an incongruous sight in the midst of Gaza's rubble--one TV is tuned to CNN, another to Israeli television. Various radios blare with election news. The guests fidget and curse Peres' rival, Benjamin Netanyahu. "It's amazing," Shaath says, "for decades, each Israeli Prime Minister was as bad for us as every other. But this time our whole future is on the line. This is our election too, so of course we're all anxious--and believe me, no one is more anxious than Arafat. Given where we are with the peace process...
Strangers cannot be found on the Playboy channel--you will find it instead on HBO, one of more than half a dozen or so "adult" anthology series offering soft-core sexual adventure that have been appearing late at night on the various paycable networks. Of course, the ability to show bare female nipples--and to get endless mileage out of low-budget R-rated movies--has been one of the prime attractions of pay cable ever since its birth in the 1970s. But it wasn't until just a few years ago that programmers began rolling out their own regularly...
Tenure at Harvard's various schools...
...interested in various fields of thought should be thrown together with a view of promoting a broad and humane culture," Lowell wrote in 1928. "So far as subjects of concentration, pecuniary means, and residence in different parts of the country are concerned, each House should be a cross-section of the College...