Word: merrier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continued to grow, economies remain robust--and famines in Biafra and Ethiopia are more aberrations than signs of the future. Cassandras reply that Malthus was right, but techno-fixes have postponed the day of reckoning. There are now 6 billion people on Earth. The Pollyannas say the more the merrier; the Cassandras say that is already twice as many as can be supported in middle-class comfort, and the world is running out of arable land and fresh water. Despite a recent slowdown in the growth rate, the U.N. Population Division expects the world population to reach 9.5 billion...
...sell-off could be a godsend in disguise. We need to see the dot.com door close, and close hard. We got our money from the market to grow and prosper, but we would prefer others not to have such good luck. The fewer dot.coms in our space, the merrier...
...recent years Podhoretz has struck bystanders as dyspeptic and contentious, and in debate as single-minded as a dog with his teeth sunk into a mailman's calf. Mailer has said that in the old days Podhoretz was a merrier man. Perhaps years of contrarian outrage have grimmed down the merriness. But the admirable Podhoretz has always lived by the gospel according to George Orwell: "The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet to be fully alive...
Encryption converts data into a locked or 'ciphertext' version. In order to decipher the data, a key is needed. The quality of an encryption key is measured in bits. The more bits, the merrier. The strongest commercially available encryption is currently 128 bits, (although there is some insane company that just announced 4,096 bit encryption...
...conference was about to start, about a dozen of our allies were stranded outside without tickets, although seats were clearly available. I mentioned this to Peter and he helped me get them in. "The more the merrier," he said. But I was puzzled--why had this man helped me? We were supposed to be enemies...