Word: bushed
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This is "hypertext," and it was hardly new. The idea was outlined by Vannevar Bush in 1945 and envisioned as an appendage to the brain. Berners-Lee explains the brainlike structure of hypertext by reference to his cup of coffee. "If instead of coffee I'd brought in lilac," he says, sitting in a conference room in M.I.T.'s computer-science lab, "you'd have a strong association between the laboratory for computer science and lilac. You could walk by a lilac bush and be brought back to the laboratory." My brain would do this transporting via interlinked neurons...
LAMAR Education BUSH 87 Confirmed ALEXANDER Secretary March...
...even sharper point of contention with the public employees' union has been the Administration's months-long delay in deciding whether Texas Governor George W. Bush should be allowed to turn over the management of the state's cumbersome welfare system to private firms. Several companies, including Lockheed Martin and IBM, are eager to bid on what is expected to be a $2 billion multi-year contract. The unions fear not only the loss of thousands of government jobs in Texas but also the possibility that the idea could spread to other states. The day after the union snubbed...
...competitive aerospace market by selling used aircraft parts across the region in the 1960s and '70s, sleeping in bus stations and bathing in airport rest rooms to save money. He rose to a position of power in the G.O.P. organization Republicans Abroad, and served as regional coordinator for George Bush in 1988 before giving up his U.S. citizenship...
...bloodless finale. Of the seven people who held out through the week, five were in custody while two who had fled into the countryside seemed likely to be run to ground by bloodhounds and Rangers on horseback. Midway through the almost comic siege, reporters joked that Governor George W. Bush might have to turn into Governor Fujimori--a reference to the Peruvian President who had to use force to end the four-month siege of the Japanese embassy in Lima. Officials took every precaution in the standoff, not least because Texas is the place that saw the Waco conflagration. (Earlier...