Word: moving
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This intense curiosity sparked a life-long interest in the whys and wherefores of computers and offered an alternative to a real life that was less than orderly. When his parents went through a divorce after a move to New York City, Mattel hand-held games like football and car racing and the popular memory-testing game "Simon" were outlets that let Bennahum "hide from the experience of seeing once-powerful adults falter." In his high school computer lab he explains how users there escaped to a virtual world free from, among other things, divorces, remarriages, and troubled siblings...
...only call for change in the proposal, Hudson says, is for separate treatment of students' and parents' assets. Money in a student's name is seen as more expendable than money in a parent's savings, and this encourages families to move their money around--to the student's account for tax purposes and then back to the parent's for financial aid calculations...
...YOUR MOVE-I'M TOO CHICKEN TO MAKE A MOVE MYSELF" EXCHANGE...
...February 1997 Harvard held its first large public meeting on the project--a surprising move given its history of keeping plans close to the vest until much further along in the development process, and the limited specifics available at that time. They had no architect, no design drawing and no firm site chosen, but Harvard officials proceeded anyway...
With this move, Harvard might be heading off potential opposition. Bad blood has been shed over the Fogg and the Sackler before, as Cuno acknowledged when he referred to the University's original proposal to link the Fogg and the Sackler with a bridge over Broadway at the time the Sackler was built. Because of bitter community opposition that plan was never completed...