Word: dial
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...last day of classes is here, and that means it’s time to get drunk and sloppy. Stumble up to Spanish class. Tell Gov 20 that you love it, many times, in a loud voice. Maybe drunk dial Ec 10. Here are some rules to drink by: 1. Any lecture that ends to the tune of “and that is why Ancient Etruscan Transgender Practices are important to your life today” deserves a hearty toast, for effort at least. 2. If your hot TF seems suspiciously more flirtatious than usual, offer her/him a swig...
...Harvard undergrad. Hey section guy, it’s time to suck up your overconfidence and pride and remember that the professors may actually know more than you do. On the other hand, if you do have some semblance of a social life, here are things to avoid: drunk dialing potential candidates, letting your friends drunk dial them, or arriving red-eyed to a meeting with them after many drunk dials. 2. Outshine the competition. Be aware of their current research, remember the names and ages of their children, and always, always agree with their opinions. Stalking is a form...
...stream" - the real-time feed of members' status updates, wall posts and such - to outside developers. Developers can now create new programs that mashup and remix those core data, making the information more useful and fun for members. For instance, say you were a developer, you could build "Facebook dials," as a way for members to dial in which Facebook friends they're interested in - bucketing for later perusal status updates and so forth from the key people in their life - and dial down the ones who aren't. (Read "Facebook Wants to Read Your Mind...
Preserving jobs - even if the alternative is losing them - can be demoralizing in certain ways too. For top execs, a cut may mean it's time to dial back on the trips to St. Bart's. For line workers, who've probably calculated exactly how much mortgage and college tuition they can afford based on their salaries, the effect is more jarring. (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...
Crying Like a Child Staff Sergeant Flores, a married father of two, who'd looked so haggard last August, was the station commander overseeing the pair of recruiting offices in Nacogdoches. The job required the veteran of both Afghanistan and Iraq to dial into two daily conference calls from his office at 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. "On a regular basis, he would complain to me that the 15 to 19 hours we worked daily were too much," a colleague told Army investigators...