Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difference between the responses is a fundamental one; but it is frequently misunderstood outside of the computer world. The name on the front of the computer's case is simply the name of the company that put the computer together. A CPU is the single-chip brain of modern personal computers that performs the most basic computer operations, like addition or multiplication...
...merit of the proposed change is that by requiring attendance but leaving enforcement to professors, it places the decision about the necessity of TF attendance in the hands of professors. The proposal achieves an important goal; it removes non-attendance at lecture as a possible bargaining chip in the negotiations between professors and the TFs they want to hire. It sends the strong message that attendance at lectures is something that is required of TFs, not something that is above and beyond their duty...
...Army infantry unit. He worked himself hard on his own time, hoping to qualify for the Army Special Forces. After he failed to make it, friends say, McVeigh, already a loner, became increasingly frustrated. His politics veered far rightward. He claimed that the Army had implanted a computer chip in his buttocks. He was distraught over the 1993 destruction of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco and, about that time, bought a TEC-9 semiautomatic assault weapon, a gun banned by law last year. Those who knew him in Michigan said McVeigh was always armed. But Linda Haner-Mele...
...guys from Bloomington, Indiana, are sick of small fame. For three years their satirical public-access TV show has played to critical acclaim in the greater Bloomington area, but it has never attracted the kind of national attention that would capture a slot on network TV. Though local sponsors chip in enough to keep Everson clothed, housed and fed, Nickell still has to support himself as a waiter. So the pair set their sights beyond broadcast TV, beyond cable TV, to the computer networks. Last week, as their 85th episode, Global Village Idiots, was flickering across Bloomington televisions...
...usual madhouse atmosphere of women milling through Randy's house is briefly suspended once, when her aunt mentions that it's difficult to be poor and have to provide for friends and family. Having explained the chip on her shoulder, the story resumes. Most of the characters have one scene where they come to life, but then we learn little else about them...