Word: wiping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aggressive defense that will try to slow down Harvard's high-scoring attack. That strategy almost worked at Bright last February, when the Big Green held the Crimson in regulation before falling in overtime, 3-2. In the ECAC semifinals, however, Harvard exploded in the second period to wipe out Dartmouth...
Whatever rules finally emerge, it would be a mistake to make them so strict that they wipe out the serendipity and occasional weirdness that exist in Internet domain names. Take www.billgates.com Type it into your browser, and you end up at a black screen with the single word Mail written on it in green. The low-rent feel is the first tip-off that the Microsoft founder has nothing to do with this site. It's run by Dale Ghent, a Generation-Y computer-systems engineer who--just out of high school, on a lark--grabbed the domain name before...
...bushels of stock the day after--some sellers are simply trying to raise enough cash for the expected mini-crash. Others, mindful that it has been a super market for tech all year, are anxious to take something off the table ahead of a quick sell-off that might wipe out those gains...
...these, of course, are examples of what Joseph Schumpeter, one of the giants of economics, called "creative destruction"--the replacement of old ways of doing business by better ones. Still, these changes will wipe out some jobs and, Munroe fears, stir resistance to the Internet among many people who feel economically threatened...
...insensitivity. It came from that dark side of man's nature which most assuredly spans the boundaries of class and education. Theodore J. Kaczynski was a Harvard man, wasn't he? And I recall that Fidel Castro, Ted Bundy, and Dr. Josef Mengele were "educated" men. Schooling can't wipe away bloodlust and evil from the human spirit--it paints them nicer colors, making them all the more horrible indeed...