Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says he can't identify some of his users, because they sign up anonymously through the company's Web page and then pay with cash-stuffed envelopes. This, as you can imagine, could be a police officer's nightmare--untraceable stalkers, extorters, blackmailers, etc.; it's also a logical outgrowth of free speech. Besides, notes Cottrell, "95% of our customers actually pay with credit cards...
...Harvard College lacks a unifying vision for what kind of students it wants to produce," says Beth A. Stewart '00, out-going council president. "Part of the outgrowth of the lack of a mission is there is just no community on campus...
...past, "the council came to be energized by progressive politics. Our term didn't have that same energy," Stewart says. "Some people felt that we needed a more cohesive statement, and the community message might have been an outgrowth of that...
...that Watson went home to was an American icon. It was the outgrowth of a debt-ridden maker of scales, time clocks and accounting machines that his father took charge of in 1914--the year Tom Jr. was born. The elder Watson created a fanatically loyal work force at IBM--the company's name since 1924--hanging THINK signs everywhere, leading employee sing-alongs (corporate anthem: Hail to IBM) and dictating everything from office attire (white shirt, dark suit) to policies on smoking and drinking (forbidden on the job and strongly discouraged off it). IBM dominated the market for punch...
...course, language doesn't call women "sluts"; people do. Changing language can only succeed insofar as we change the attitudes of those who speak it. Otherwise, people will consider linguistic alterations a laughable outgrowth of political correctness, forced upon them by an overly sensitive establishment. Society will remain just as frustrated if political correctness leads only to the switching of a few pronouns, and not to thinking deeply about the real nature of gender and gender equality...