Word: checked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mart has contracted Books-A-Million and Fingerhut to pick, pack and ship online orders--most likely a short-term solution. The company will also have to grasp how online shoppers shop. Choosing products to splash on its home page isn't like stocking razor blades by the check-out. "This is where it's behind the learning curve," Cooperstein says, "but it will learn." And before long, it may be time to dig into that souffle. Priced at a discount, of course...
...squared. Just wait till you hear about land blimps. As more and more sites promise faster and faster deliveries (check out urbanfetch.com or kozmo.com which delivers videos, ice cream and best-selling novels to your door in under an hour in five cities), experts expect the arrival of what Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future calls "convenience stores on wheels," vehicles on a permanent cruise between warehouses and your garage...
Harvard's lack of recognition of multiracial and biracial identities is reflected in American society. For instance, recall the recent uproar over allowing individuals to check more than one box for race on the census. Government bureaucrats protested against this proposal for years, arguing that it would skew figures needed to determine if minorities were receiving equal access to government programs...
...Census Bureau decided to allow individuals to check as many categories for race as they identify with on the 2000 Census. Hopefully, Harvard and many other societal entities chained to tradition will come to understand that due to the growing rate of interracial marriages, a substantial number of people can no longer only classify themselves as a member of a single ethnic group. This key demographic change must be recognized and the proper measures taken to incorporate the swelling ranks of multiracial individuals...
...into the site, users need to enter their Harvard ID numbers and personal identification numbers, which students already use to check grades on-line...