Word: liaisoning
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Wireless access at the college has expanded enormously, even during my short two-year tenure—access points (devices that act as a liaison of sorts between the wired network and the airwaves) can be found in the common spaces of all the houses and most big lecture halls, and the common rooms in the Yard are set to be hooked up by next fall. So where do we come up short? Apart from access in outdoor courtyards (which is reasonably impractical given that the Bostonian winter seems to start in October and end two weeks before classes...
...Control Office was immediately informed of the problem, and the computer lab user assistants were instructed to encourage lab patrons to use the two air-conditioned labs on the second floor of the Science Center, according to an e-mail sent by Erin Nettifee, a computer accounts and security liaison for Harvard University FAS Computer Services...
Leagues of Nations have been suggested before. Conferences of diplomats come not without precedent. Schemes and plans for restraining man's aggressive instincts have been broached. But it is not in any such fundamentally illegitimate liaison as that of naval science and academic culture that the solution is to be found. Plato and Ludovico II Moro may only make our marines the better fighters. It is only in the stimulation of some sort of national consciousness of the horrors of organized warfare that peace may be assured...
...family name on the political spectrum. When he began taking over the family business, its controversial workplace policies had earned it a long list of aggrieved parties--gays, minorities, women. Coors took steps to rebuild those relationships, including hiring Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter Mary as Coors' liaison to the gay community...
Hamas is divided and subdivided into endless compartmentalized cells responsible for discrete tasks: recruitment, planning, weapons development, operations, security. Apart from a few top guns like Ishtawi, who was an overall operations commander and liaison to West Bank Hamas groups, cell members know nothing about units outside their own. In Gaza, when a cell is decapitated, fresh leaders are ready to spring into place. "Even if Sheik Yassin got killed," a Hamas activist told me last month, "Hamas is a big organization now and even he can be replaced. When a leader is killed, it makes us all tougher...