Word: chaining
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...central server instead of passed from PC to PC like e-mail. Everybody sees what everybody else is typing as they type it. Everybody can edit what everybody else writes. With regular e-mail, the simple act of collaborating on a list can turn into a nightmare chain, crawling with indents and chevrons and worse. Wave keeps everything tidy...
...able to make something work.” Soon I get another e-mail from someone I had not contacted, John M. Bredehoft ’80, who had been debate partners with Mike when they were back in college. Because the e-mails are all in a chain I can see the correspondence between the two: King wrote to his friend, “Did you get one of these? If not, mind if I send him your way? Good lord, this would be like somebody on the Crimson staff of 1979 getting in touch with a Harvard debater...
...planned. Maybe I won’t end up writing commercials or working in the obesity hospitality sector and these notes will just go to waste. But just maybe I’ll end up writing a book about a guy who makes commercials for this very hotel chain. Who knows which random thought will have been worth jotting down...
...Began the nation's first female and juvenile chain gangs...
...rather than rent. There's a positive side to this, as homeowners tend to take better care of their property and their neighborhood than renters do. But there's a negative one too, particularly in times of economic upheaval like this, as homeownership becomes an economic ball and chain that keeps workers from moving to areas where jobs are more plentiful. Subsidies also tempt us to buy more house than we would otherwise, a wasteful use of capital - not to mention of the energy it takes to heat and cool large houses. Finally, subsidizing house purchases drives up prices. That...