Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Epps said Harvard already meets the overwhelming majority of these criteria, which include the prohibition of alcohol delivery to first-year dorms and efforts to control sports-related drinking such as the distribution of alcohol at tailgates and school-wide events...
...strange, scary and wonderful thing to find yourself with a Harvard degree in a wide-open world. You have to begin making decisions about where to go, what to do, who to be with and so on; and the most challenging part of facing your future, but also the most exhilarating and privileged aspect of it, is the very freedom we have to choose. In a world littered with social inequalities between nationalities, tribes, races, etc., this freedom cannot be justified to the more than one billion people living in poverty, because there is nothing just about...
...Walt, the youngest son, had discovered he could escape dad's--and life's--meanness in art classes. In the service he kept drawing, and when he was mustered out, he set up shop as a commercial artist in Kansas City, Mo. There he discovered animation, a new field, wide open to an ambitious young man determined to escape his father's sorry fate...
...early '90s, electronic mail and the Internet were big. Technologists forecast an Internet-centered view of computing called "mirror worlds." Technophiles enthused about the "information superhighway." The World Wide Web emerged in 1994, making browsers necessary, and Netscape was founded that same year. Sun Microsystems developed Java, the Internet programming language. Gates hung back. It wasn't until 1996 that Microsoft finally, according to Gates himself, "embraced the Internet wholeheartedly...
Theoretically, a conglomerate made sense because it could balance out the business cycle by trading in a wide array of goods and services. Somewhat perversely, both the tax code and the antitrust policy at that time encouraged the strategy. ITT bought the maker of Wonder bread...