Word: controllable
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Most importantly for Radcliffe traditionalists is the Fay Prize, offered annually to an undergraduate woman for outstanding academic and personal achievement. According to Dunn, officials will be deciding in the next month whether Radcliffe will relinquish control of the prize to Harvard...
...question may be the intentions of the Indonesian military inside East Timor. Habibie's announcement stressed that Indonesia plans to keep its troops there after peacekeepers arrive, even though the army's top commanders acknowledge that they've lost control of rogue elements in their ranks. Presumably those elements aren't going to turn into Boy Scouts when a battalion of Australian troops comes marching down the road. So this particular "peacekeeping" operation may end up looking more like a counterinsurgency campaign. Joining the Aussies will be British Gurkhas and troops from Malaysia, New Zealand, France, Thailand, the Philippines...
...observers believe that Hutchison is an arm of the P.L.A. The publicly held firm manages 19 ports in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Shipping experts consider the company among the world's finest. And, says Joseph Cornelison, the commission's deputy administrator, "we'll control the timing of ships going in and out of Hutchison's ports." Moreover, under the treaty, U.S. Navy ships will keep their privilege of cutting to the front of the line of vessels waiting to traverse the canal...
...latex-free passion--especially in an era when, in his view, protease inhibitors are on the verge of turning AIDS from a fatal disease into a chronic illness. "It's the bad boy in me getting off," he admits. "One thing that barebacking allows is a certain amount of control over the risk. In sex, we have the ability to face the risk and look...
Zaitz's story is not unique. From farming to food to microprocessors; from solid-waste control to plastics to such traditional Rust Belt goods as steel, virtually every American industry is represented online by at least one entrepreneur who has set up shop to cement business-to-business commerce. Meanwhile, large corporations are using the Internet to build bridges between themselves and their strategic partners. Each member of the online biz-to-biz (B2B) brigade is hoping to use the Net's instantaneous global reach to build digital marketplaces where buyers and sellers who may never have...