Word: digitalizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When a random person friends you—say, they think you’re kind of cute or, more likely, want to raise their social capital by boasting a four-digit number of associates—accepting them into your pantheon of friends is a gesture of kindness. However, facebook.com’s upcoming “feature” that allows you to affix “degrees of friendship” will rub into random persons’ proverbial faces that, in fact, they might not know you at all—ouch. That this...
...Huskies began the game on a 9-0 run and maintained a double-digit lead almost all night. A forbidding cocktail of abysmal defensive rebounding, hurried shot selection, and untimely turnovers ruined the Crimson’s opening frame...
...transfer admissions cycle for only eight students, however, would be impractical and unfair to the hundreds of other students who apply for transfer admission each year. If Harvard were to accept a substantial number of Tulane applicants, the acceptance rate of this special pool would far exceed the single-digit figures that perennially govern the ultra-competitive transfer application process, which would be unfair to standard transfer applicants who face far bleaker odds. On the other hand, if Harvard were to apply the same standard to the Tulane pool as to the general pool, then—statistically, at least?...
...Despite the positive gestures, the two countries still regard each other warily. Years of double-digit growth in China's military spending could within a decade give it the means to project power in the region, and its hunger for natural resources worries American strategists. Says a U.S. official who deals with China, "We talk about China as a rival in our meetings, and that's how they talk about us in theirs...
Cheer up. In the two years since you wrote your story, our endowment has grown by a 10-digit number. Our faculty members have won Nobel Prizes. Our admissions have become yet more selective, yielding a more diverse and smarter student body. Our administration has made a comparatively Herculean effort to improve social life. Our University President has finally decided to stop living in sin. And you’re still not in New Haven...