Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cable TV industry. According to media-research firm Paul Kagan Associates, subscriptions for the largest pay-cable services were flat or down. But the Disney Channel announced last week that it grew 11% in 1991, adding 633,000 households. That brings its base of 6.25 million into a virtual tie with No. 3, Cinemax...
...billion security industry, "problems" like Padilla, Huston and Juse are all too common. While the majority of the estimated 1.1 million security guards in America do honest and capable work, a TIME investigation indicates that the industry, which has grown spectacularly in the past two decades, has become a virtual dumping ground for the unstable, the dishonest and the violent. Many use drugs or have criminal records. Many are hired off the street, given uniforms and assigned to posts within a day. The industry is fragmented, intensely competitive and unwilling to police itself adequately, yet it is governed by weak...
...northwest Mexico without your own phone? No problem. "Virtual telephone service" to the rescue. Come spring you can get your own number and confidential voice mailbox and, by calling from any public phone, retrieve messages left by other callers. The Trilogue system, patented by Comverse Technology of Woodbury, N.Y., provides instant hookup in areas where expensive phone installation may take months, even years. "I call it entry-level service," says Comverse spokesman Paul Baker. "We're bringing the modern telephone to the grass roots...
...recession has left the great American middle class feeling frayed and sobered and vulnerable. Fear and anger are eating like acids at the electorate. A shadowed mood has been playing across the country. Stories of foreclosures and lost jobs have woven themselves into a virtual folklore. Many who have been accustomed to the upholstered assumptions of the American Dream have discovered what looks like an abyss, something the middle class has not seen before. Looking down gives them terrible vertigo. It scares them, and makes them want to attack the politicians they think have led them to this place...
While this report is detailed on potential punishments for public service programs which neglect those guidelines, the actual guidelines are very meager indeed. They include a virtual reproduction of the PBHA vehicle policy, the University shuttle bus policy, and then clear statements such as "adequate training of student volunteers, along with consistent positive relationships between Harvard students with the communities they serve, are two crucial areas that must be addressed, in order to provide high quality safe programs...