Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knowles said the appointment of visiting professors whose work is "relevant to the study of ethnicity will...enrich the curriculum...
These more leisurely activities not only can't go on a resume, but they don't even add anything to our personal lives. They won't give us things to say at a job interview or enrich our aesthetic repertoire or help us lose weight. They're just fun. But more often than not, when we sit down with a trashy novel or an old magazine, our enjoyment is accompanied by an unmistakable sense of guilt. We aren't having fun--we're "procrastinating." We're "wasting time." There is no such thing as free time anymore: not because...
...Untold adventure awaits him. He is the man who will land on the moon, cure cancer and the common cold, lay out blight-proof, smog-free cities, enrich the underdeveloped world and, no doubt, write finis to poverty and war. With his skeptical yet humanistic outlook, his disdain for fanaticism and his scorn for the spurious, the Man of the Year suggests that he will infuse the future with a new sense of morality." --Jan. 6, 1967, from Man of the Year profile of the "25 and Under" generation...
Things are really nasty in Pleasantville these days. The Reader's Digest Association, best known for its pocket-size magazine, is in a state of protracted turmoil. The sputtering 76-year-old publisher founded to "inform, enrich, entertain and inspire people" has lately just incited a group of big-game-hunting shareholders, who want to see the Digest company restructured or sold. "This is a company that has been asleep," says Nell Minow, a principal of Lens, an activist Washington-based money manager with a substantial stake in the firm. "We are trying to bring them into the 20th century...
This particular auction represents a rescheduling of the one that was being planned shortly before the death of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, son of Mohammad al Fayed, who had originally intended the Windsor auction to further enrich his world. Now, the net proceeds will go to a charitable foundation, which is proper and commendable but does not change the basic invasive nature of these events...