Word: crypticness
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...Does the cryptic language about meeting 'competitors' salaries' suggest that we are moving to a market principle?...Is a market principle to be extended to senior faculty?" he asked...
...usual for her, the lyrics remain somewhat impenetrable to one who knows little of her life. Her references to obscure people and incidents prevent the listener from figuring out precisely what she wants to say. Fortunately for her, she makes up for what is lost in cryptic allusions in the emotional strength of her voice. Her feelings are clear even if the meaning...
...data and programs--the twin staples of computing--don't have to be stored on your computer anymore. They can reside anywhere on the Internet, called up by whoever needs them, whenever they need them. It's a development that could finally make true Sun's original and hitherto cryptic slogan: The Network Is the Computer. "There's a paradigm shift every 10 or 15 years," says Marc Andreessen, a Web pioneer and co-founder of Netscape Communications. "And we're in one right...
Three top White House figures testified before the Senate Whitewater committee today. Under intense questioning by committee chairman Alfonse D'Amato, former White House attorney William Kennedy asserted that his notes of a 1993 Whitewater meeting, while cryptic, were innocuous. The phrase "Vacuum, Rose Law files" was not "an integrated phrase," Kennedy told the committee. Instead, the words referred not to a plan to remove (i.e. vacuum) files from the firm, but to a lack of Whitewater information at the Rose firm where Hillary Clinton formerly was a partner. Another phrase of particular interest to investigators, "Documents -- never know...
Still other services run off menu-driven interfaces, or off text-based systems which are as unfriendly and cryptic as they are powerful. In each case the user gains a certain proprietary familiarity with the system. It forms the lens through which he sees the cyber-world; it gives her the hands with which to manipulate objects and perform tasks. It is the mind's extension and tool...