Word: customizer
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...custom-designed database...
...this specificity of purpose, says William Seltzer, an expert in demographic statistics at Fordham University, that provides the most damning evidence. "Microsoft is not responsible for every spreadsheet made with Excel," Seltzer told TIME.com. "But if someone is doing custom designing of a database, they have to know what's going on. With these punch cards, Dehomag had to design a card for every piece of new information that the government wanted...
...black art that carried him far. When he was packed off to Phillips Academy, where sarcasm (irony's nasty little sibling) was the only language spoken, Dubya crafted derogatory nicknames for classmates; but defying custom, he would use them to their face. Such was his cool-guy swagger that he was apparently able to pull this off, if for no other reason than nicknames imply recognition, not nothing in the adolescent struggle for selfhood. And as he attracted new descriptors for himself, like Lip and Tweeds, it was surely during this period that Bush gave nicknaming a permanent place...
...Such prejudice is commonplace. Many Africans see homosexuality as simply un-African, a custom introduced by European settlers and practiced by tourists. When two gay male tourists were suspected of arranging a wedding last year in Lamu, a coastal town in Kenya, a mob of 2,000 hounded them, forcing them to hide in a hall of a museum where the ceremony was to take place. "In African culture the act is forbidden," says Philip Mwangi, a security guard at a Nairobi supermarket. "People get angry when they hear about it. Why should a man marry another man when...
...things, Elf?s largesse allowed her to acquire a $2.4 million apartment, a $43,000 17th century tapestry and a $31,000 grand piano. Dumas apparently enjoyed the free use of the apartment?along with gourmet restaurant meals, $46,000 worth of art and a $1,500 pair of custom-made boots, all purchased for him with Christine?s corporate credit card...