Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...popular website run by 24-year-old New Yorker Philip Kaplan (found at the X-rated address F_____dCompany.com) Launched on Memorial Day, it has already received more than 80,000 sign-ups. Kaplan's secret: besides running sweepstakes on the big losers, his site has quickly become the central rumor mill of the Internet economy. Human-resources departments scour it for tips on where to send the headhunters next, and analysts check it before recommending a company to investors...
This unlikely progression forms the central plot of Myla Goldberg's Bee Season (Doubleday; 275 pages; $22.95), a winningly eccentric and intriguing first novel. Eliza's discovery of her talent at spelling may sound like the stuff of human-interest news items, but Goldberg is up to something more demanding here than simply warming readers' hearts. She portrays not only Eliza's happy successes but the unexpected, upsetting effects they have on the other three members of her family...
Although the song quality on Lil' Kim's debut, Hard Core (1996), was inconsistent, her central purpose was captivating. She was asserting the right of female rappers to be as rough and randy as their male counterparts. And while Kim's lyrics offered up her body for male sexual gratification, they came with a threat: she was, she rapped, "Queen Bee." There might be many men in her hive, but she was ultimately in control...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and his staff will work out of the Engineering Sciences Lab on Oxford Street, while Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and the rest of University Hall staff have relocated to 1033 Mass. Ave., half way between the Yard and Central Square...
...Lewis said that despite the central air conditioning in the Engineering Science Lab, the Oxford St. offices were not his first choice...