Search Details

Word: controlã (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...from online privacy activist groups and displeased users, Facebook altered the Beacon program so that information from affiliated sites would only by used if the user consented each time a purchase was made. In his apology this week, Zuckerberg stated that Facebook released a new “privacy control?? allowing users to completely disable Beacon—a step he described as “the right solution” to the company’s previous mistakes. “Facebook was already a privacy nightmare, so I definitely don’t like that they...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Zuckerberg Apologizes For Beacon Ad Feature | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...well off,” Kolstad said. “But it’s the nature of growth, the composition of consumption, that we want to be concerned about.” In recent years, there has been a general “command and control?? approach to regulating the problem. For example, the cap-and-trade system, which consists of an overall cap on emissions and the buying and selling of emission permits, has been very successful, especially in the sulfur allowance market, he said. Kolstad expects to see “major progress?...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ec. Prof Leads Climate Change Talk | 12/4/2007 | See Source »

...work it out: Adams cruelly points out its flaws, viciously satirizing a ton of rock music.Just look at the track list. “This Is It,” “Wish You Were Here,” “She’s Lost Total Control??: if those song titles don’t sound strangely familiar, then you don’t listen to rock music. Parody’s the point.And Adams does it ridiculously well, getting nearly everyone right. There’s the Edge-like guitar...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOR THE RECORD: Ryan Adams | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

Harvard, wary of Kleenex’s fate, has always taken special care to protect its brand. The employees of the Harvard Trademark Program, with an official Orwellian mandate to “protect and control?? Harvard’s brand identity across the world, show up to work each day to ensure that, Heaven forbid, no street vendor in Dakar or Dot sells an unlicensed T-shirt with our sacrosanct insignia on it. The Harvard name does not merely signify unrivaled academic power—it signifies the registered trademark of unrivaled academic power, full rights reserved...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: A Nominal Problem | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

After all, Harvard is an old, wealthy, and powerful school and it has developed a lasting institutional memory—larger than any of its individual students. The idea that our time here is strongly influenced by factors outside of our control??our freshman roommates, our housing assignment—is a humbling one, as is the obvious, yet somehow unpleasant, fact that we can’t all stand...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: Accepting Normalcy | 5/6/2007 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Next