Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...government responded to the electoral rout with pledges to transfer power to a civilian government. But the timing remained vague, and the future role of the military was anything but clear. Although junta leader General Saw Maung announced that he would cede control "to the largest party," there were enough caveats to leave the opposition sleepless. First a constitution must be drafted, a process that diplomats warn could take as long as three years. And, Saw Maung cautioned, whoever threatens the protection of "national unity will not be tolerated...
...Sandy and Sonny in a hot tub together. But the bubbly alchemy is less convincing than their professional chemistry. Exchanges about subpoenas and fiduciary relationships resound with the authority of a judge's gavel. Clear explanations of how dishonest brokers and floor traders operate should add to the damage-control problems at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange...
...information age has not lived up to early hopes, neither has it justified later fears. Instead of mass unemployment, automation permitted the expansion of the economy and created new jobs. Abuse of the electronic media did not create the thought-controlled world predicted by George Orwell in 1984. Decades of attempts to control information in the Soviet Union backfired in the worst possible way: the government could not convince people they lived in a worker's paradise, but it could dampen the knowledge flow sufficiently to stifle the innovation necessary for a robust economy...
...Class of '90 is that the formative events of our youth occurred amid conscious efforts at national carelessness. From the 1987 financial crash, to the 1988 presidential election, to the brought-to-you-by-TV revolutions abroad of 1989, we lived the era of Change via Remote control. The program trading of computers, the media-manipulating spin-doctors and the unforeseen uprising of millions abroad conspired to take events out of our hands. And we were content to let them...
HARVARD'S focus on the bottom line reached symbolic and absurd proportions when control over Sanders Theater shifted from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to Harvard Real Estate (HRE) two years ago. HRE administrators pledged to make Sanders competetive with Boston concert areas. The result for student groups was felt this year: tripled rent, no guarantee for performing dates and required purchase of unnecessary services. Students were being chased out of the only large performance space on campus...