Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students inevitably find themselves forced to buy at the Coop. Although some humanities textbooks are available at other bookstores, science textbooks can rarely be found elsewhere. Notebooks, pens, and other non-essentials--even Harvard insignia clothing--exist at other stores in the square. But the Coop has a virtual monopoly on textbooks, the fundamental item in every class, and prices them uncompetitively. If other bookstores had access to these lists, students would get better deals as numerous bookstores vied for their attention...
...fact that this country has committed great racial and ethnic injustices in the past. We cannot look at our history of slavery and the virtual extermination of Native Americans and claim that the current unfortunate circumstances of some black Americans and Native Americans are not a result of what we as a nation have done. But a paternalistic government is not the means by which we will right yesterday's wrongs. We have tried those so-called solutions for three decades and they have failed--and they will continue to do so as long as we place our native faith...
...gradual, wistful loss of his Utopian enthusiasms, though, that shapes Seabrook's narrative. Inspired by the promise of a "virtual community" to join the Well, a legendary West Coast bulletin-board system, Seabrook learns in various hard ways that a community of digital beings can be just as constraining--and cruel--as the corporeal kind. Unwritten rules abound, and when Seabrook breaches a few, the Well's otherwise benevolent group mind turns on him in what one Well veteran calls a Chicken Peck--"where one of the flock shows a bit of blood, and a few of the other chickens...
...virtual repeat of his earlier tally, Yalie Jeff Brow narrowed his team's deficit. From the same spot, with a defender playing him and screening the Crimson net, Brow rifled another slapshot that again managed to squirt by his defender and elude Prestifilippo...
...dead soldiers were a virtual portrait of Israel's incredible diversity. They included not only Jews, but also Druze, Bedouins and other Muslims who serve in the Israeli army as patriotic citizens. They came from every region of the nation, from cosmopolitan cities to small agricultural settlements. To us here in America, at Harvard, this loss of human life, of foreign soldiers in a little-understood war, is very distant and impersonal. These dead soldiers were not so very different from any of us, however. Most were between age 18 and 22, the very same age as American college students...