Word: bugging
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...starters, the U.S. will have to take up the slack left by departing allies. When Spain's new Socialist Prime Minister held firm on his campaign promise to withdraw his 1,300 troops, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, which rely on the Spanish for command and control, decided to bug out as well. Thailand threatened to withdraw its aid workers if attacked, and even faithful Australia is down to 850 of the 2,000 troops it originally shipped over last year. Secretary of State Colin Powell called leaders of roughly half the 34 coalition countries to try to prevent further...
Thank you for publishing the excellent column “Girl Talk” by Phoebe Kosman ’05 on April 12. It directly addressed many of the word-choice issues that bug me when referring to a woman in daily conversation. One suggestion, that was not mentioned in the article, is to use “gal” to refer to females who are “not a girl, and not yet a woman”. It seems to be the appropriate analogue...
Davis, who is also a Crimson editor, said that computer service employees were actually testing new software designed by Cisco Systems specifically designed to fix a bug during the time of the outage...
...Last week we were running tests, but the bug came to fruition before we could put the patch out there,” Davis said...
...more advising, but some faculty feel underused,” Professor of History Joyce E. Chaplin, the head tutor in history, writes in an e-mail. “The latter indicates the existence of a not-inconsiderable population of students who would really rather not have the faculty bug them...