Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virtual reality of the lending business, however, establishing an identity is a difficult maneuver. Brandishing the secret code-words--they served broccoli cheese pasta in the dining hall tonight--I tried to regain entry into the land of the Harvard living. But only workers at Hilles (Shepard Street) could confirm my existence--she still has books out, they vouched...
This academic year, the office, under new director Diane Patrick, embarked on a grand decentralization plan to give virtual autonomy to satellite offices of human resources in the graduate schools and departments. Under the plan, a scaled-back central office would exist merely to consult and provide some services. The goals were two-fold: make the services offered by Human Resources more accessible to workers while giving individual deans and local administrators more control...
...gray suits. At a restaurant a goon squad abducts a customer while other diners barely look up from their pasta salads. Harry's five-year- old daughter, who doesn't talk, suddenly breaks her silence with one cryptic sentence: "Everything must go." And that's not counting the virtual- reality glasses that transport Harry into an 18th century ballroom, the strange palm-tree tattoos that seem to have become a fashion statement, and the creepy Senator who tries to recruit Harry to some shadowy cause by sending him a pen-and-ink drawing -- of a rhinoceros...
...judged the world by watching network television, you might be astonished by surveys suggesting that homosexuals constitute 1% to 4% of the U.S. population -- not because the number is so much lower than apparent reality, as some critics argue, but because it is so high compared with gays' virtual invisibility on the small screen. Hollywood movies afford scarcely more notice. Yet in the theater, long a haven for gay artists provided they addressed straight topics, gay characters and stories have abruptly taken center stage. After decades on the fringe, gay-themed works are increasingly enjoying lavish Broadway productions and being...
Before they slip into tabloid history, take a parting glance at Illinois' David and Sharon Schoo. Last year they were the World's Worst Parents, deserting their daughters for a Mexican vacation. On Monday the Schoos were sentenced to community service and 30 days of virtual house arrest, leaving the couple themselves "home alone...