Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal obsessions (limited to 10) to a computer dating service promising everyone the opportunity to get some, some ultimate sustenance at the end of term. (Personally, I have always been an adherent to the Tina Brown model of cocktail party socialization, flitting from group to group with a cheerful wave and a smile-then, "I think we are expected to circulate; see you in section." I never got a chance to take up www.thespark.com on the offer to try to consummate my last crush...
...recent wave of student activism on campus can trace its success to a number of factors. First, both SAS and the LWC are part of a larger movement that has blossomed on campuses throughout the country. Second, both groups have approached their causes with a degree of sophistication that has been lacking in recent failed activist efforts. The group members know their issues well, they have approached the University with concrete, reasonable demands, and they have combined agitation with a willingness to negotiate...
...wave of changes swept the library in the '80s and '90s, including bar codes on books, consolidation of electronic catalogs under the Hollis Plus on-line system, computer access, carpeting of the reference room, the opening of the government documents and microfilm room on the first level, the Center for Students with Disabilities and the new language resource center on the sixth floor...
...criminologist about a really offbeat crime, and there's a good chance he can tell you the year. Tylenol bottles laced with poison on supermarket shelves? 1982. Syringes planted in Pepsi cans? 1993. Letters purportedly containing deadly anthrax? 1998. Reason: those are the years when a wave of similar crimes suddenly began appearing across the country...
...Response Marketing, a tiny pharmaceutical firm in the British Channel Islands that trades in trendy pills at the website lifestyledrugs.com To his inventory of Viagra (for impotence), Propecia (for balding) and Zyban (to quit smoking), owner Tom O'Brien last week added the much hyped Xenical. Result: a tidal wave of U.S. Web surfers that overwhelmed his staff of four. "We're averaging about 60 to 70 orders an hour," O'Brien reports. "It's wiped...