Word: discarding
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...receiving end of a mail bomb? "That's a tough one," says Vinton Cerf, an MCI executive who helped design the Internet in the late '60s. "If you knew who was sending you the mail, you could install a filter to throw it away. But trying to discard thousands of messages when you don't know where they're coming from just isn't possible...
...system is good; our attitudes need readjustment. The political healing of America must be a subtle thing that comes voluntarily and from within us. People must decide that our society is something worth spending time on, and must then discard the easy veil of cynicism and take a deeper look at matter...
True, these questions are not peculiar to this film or this format. Still the audience is left to wonder. Are the film-maker just the latest group of authority figures to appropriate the talent of Gates and Agee for their own purposes, only to discard them when they are through...
That's right. Surprising as it may seem, the founders of this country, in their great wisdom, set up our political system so that the people could discard ineffective leaders. It's called an election; look into...
...many others as well. To begin with, the committee apparently favors federal funding for experiments conducted on "spare" embryos collected at fertility clinics. During the process of in vitro fertilization, many eggs are fertilized but not all are implanted in the would-be mother. The extra ones are routinely discarded, and some countries already allow experiments on such embryos. But the proposed U.S. guidelines would go further: they would allow scientists to create and discard human embryos solely for research purposes. In other words, eggs and sperm could be donated by men and women who had no intention of becoming...