Word: abuzz
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Last January, I was slated to write one final piece on Kirby reflecting on developments during the last two years. Our interview was January 20, 2005, three days after word of Summers’ incendiary speech at the NBER conference hit the presses. Already, the school was abuzz, but for the first time in months, Kirby showed signs of his former candor and capacity for reflection...
Polling is abuzz in the world of the Undergraduate Council (UC). In an attempt to distance itself from some of the pitfalls of past administrations, this year's council, led by UC president John S. Haddock ’07 and vice-president Annie R. Riley ’07, has pledged to use polling more extensively to gauge student opinion on a range of issues; the UC is currently conducting a survey on the women’s center and polls on the future social programming have been proposed...
...Palm has also tossed in a few sweet features for you to manage calls. By now, lots of people are abuzz about the fact that there's a simple VCR-style control for managing voicemail with your stylus. The forward, back and repeat commands, along with the necessary save and delete, are represented by tiny icons, so you don't have to wait for the voicemail lady to tell you what to type. It's a simple innovation, but a brilliant one. How about another one? Some people's calls are easy to ignore, but when it comes to spouses...
...room was abuzz. “Did you see their rollerblades?” asked Tsuei. “Who are they...
...grand jury indicted vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis Libby in late October for perjury and obstruction of justice in the Valerie Plame case, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said no one should assume the leak inquiry was now completed. He was not kidding. Washington is still abuzz over who told Bob Woodward that Plame, the wife of Administration critic Joseph Wilson, worked for the CIA. As Woodward revealed for the first time two weeks ago, a source passed along that information in a "casual" way in mid-June 2003, at least several days before Libby told New York Times...