Word: continuum
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...pick one thing that really stood out in my Harvard career in terms of its influence on me, it would not be the Immoral Reasoning nor Social Paralysis 10. Rather, it would be the space-time continuum...
...pick two things, the first would be the space-time continuum, and the second would be the Nine-Nine List, brainwashedly known as The List...
Armstrong's bold stroke posed such a change in the competitive landscape that various players along the communications-company continuum spent a few desperate days last week searching for ways to keep MediaOne out of AT&T's hands. Internet power America Online, software supremo Microsoft, telecom giant MCI Worldcom and cable's Comcast (which made the initial $48 billion bid for MediaOne that AT&T overwhelmed) all huddled at various times because each had something to lose. AOL, for instance, could find its access to cable-modem customers blocked and its booming online-content business threatened...
...during the late '70s, or by the '90s version of the term, as a culture that includes a type of spoken-word-over-beats music with a collection of dance videos that are now seeping into the houses of the world's elite. The definitions are part of a continuum; what started as the cries of a disadvantaged group has become a billion dollar industry, one where the investors need the black face (not just any black face, but the beleaguered black face) to see their maximum profit potential. It follows that the industry has become a vehicle by which...
...would be patently unfair. But it seems equally unfair to remove all agency from them, to, in Prof. Harrington s words, "make objects instead of subjects out of human beings." RSI sufferers are not hypochondriacs, but neither are they simply machines that have been improperly aligned. Somewhere along the continuum between the two opposing images of the machine and the malingerer is the delicate and distinct balance of will and physiology that can create a disease. At this stage, where that point lies for RSI is hard-if not impossible-to determine...