Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three teenage girls are in the front, talking quietly. Two more teenagers laugh and chatter in the back. Other than these sounds, the bus is quiet...
...keep one step ahead of the students and teach myself about African empires and the Justinian Code, I think back to all the failed Faculty debates on including History 10a and 10b in the Core, all the swirling chatter about "methods and approaches to knowledge," and I wonder: To what end the self-righteous administrators' smugness at keeping the Core untainted by survey courses, if I hold a degree from Harvard and cannot call myself liberally educated...
...Lewinsky's fantasies of a blossoming emotional relationship, a merry tumble into love with "Handsome," the account portrays the President as a varsity cad. He had his first lengthy conversation with her after their sixth sexual encounter. Time and again, Clinton would interrupt Monica's cheery chatter by kissing her, "kind of to shut me up." In one telephone conversation he told her he wasn't interested in hearing about her job problems so he could quickly move on to sexually arousing banter. According to her testimony, he appeased her restless heart by holding out the prospect of a life...
...This is a relief rally, and it won't last," he says. "Pretty soon, traders will look around and start to realize this scandal is going to get uglier before it gets better." And as the Clinton pundits' chatter dies back down, Kadlec says, the ongoing disaster in Russia -- adding to the global economy's already considerable woes -- will start to sink in. "The correction wasn't nearly deep enough. A week from now, we'll be headed right back down again...
...Internet protocol," which is not the title of a Robert Ludlum novel but is rather a geeky delight that sits at the heart of the Web and e-mail revolution. Internet protocol (generally called IP) is a language computers use to talk to one another: a hyperefficient chatter that lets phone-company machines banter by sending digital data "packets" back and forth. These packages can contain anything--a frame of video, a few lines of a fax or a split second of conversation. The computers don't care what kind of data they are moving, which makes for a faster...