Word: wave
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week's "heat wave" pushed temperatures into the 60s, residents took to the outdoors in force, swarming the squares and jamming the recreational paths in Cambridge...
...last week's "heat wave" pushed the temperature into the 60s, residents took to the outdoors in force, swarming the squares and jamming the recreational paths in Cambridge...
When it comes to job hunting, the old bromide that it's not what you know, it's who you know is even more pertinent in a fast-moving, fluid economy. While Internetworking is about to become the wave of the future, even tried-and-true methods of touching base and gathering tips are useful--and perhaps even essential. There are no hard data on the networking phenomenon, but career consultants and outplacement specialists estimate that as many as 70% to 80% of the best jobs come from effective, consistent networking, as opposed to using headhunters, blind resume mailings...
...most violent type of solar eruption is known as a coronal mass ejection, a vast bubble of gas that bursts from the sun and releases a wave of charged particles into space. Slamming into Earth's atmosphere, CME discharges have been known to fry satellites, bathe airplanes with radiation and black out entire cities...
...illuminating, in fact, that the council now says it needs more money primarily to better support student groups. Just four years ago, many council members considered funding student groups much less significant than funding campus-wide social events. But then a wave of antisocial liberal students (myself included) stormed the council and tried to shift the focus away from planning dances to activist issues, lobbying administrators, funding student groups, anything but planning dances. That worked for a short while, until people realized that for all our hot air, we weren't really getting anything done...