Word: widely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wide-ranging financial mergers are reaching the international stage. We need to slow down before we hit a technological iceberg. Are there enough lifeboats for a financial Titanic? What happens when there is a weeklong electrical-power failure? Will victims of mother nature be left to sink because they could not make a simple electronic transaction to buy bread and milk? HEATHER MCQUAY Pasadena...
Only a few years ago, when Sunil Gupta, director of the University of Michigan's Hermes project, a study of commercial uses of the World Wide Web, talked to companies about marketing to seniors on the Internet, they were interested but noncommittal. They preferred to wait, they said, for "the right moment." Now, says Gupta, "it's come...
...think there are tremendous benefits to the use of data in our medical care, not so much at the individual patient level, but at the system-wide level," said panelist Denise Nagel, a doctor who is Executive Director of the Coalition for Patient Rights...
...some kind of campus spirit among its constituents, usually in the form of some massive event. While this year's Springfest was better than most, the turnout for most events of the "Club Loker" variety remains poor. Some council representatives try to explain the low attendance at campus-wide events by alluding to some vague intrinsic qualities of Harvard students. Not only are we far too hardworking for our own good, but we are also generally uninterested in activities involving large groups of people. Anything the council tries to do to draw a crowd seems destined for failure...
...Supreme Court, making Dumas France's fifth highest-ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French judges drove to his sumptuous home near Bordeaux and formally placed the 75-year-old Dumas under investigation for corruption in connection with a wide-ranging probe of France's Elf Aquitaine oil company...