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Even more outrageous and narrow is the proposed house transfer procedure. Currently, when a student wants to transfer out of his house, they pick another house and apply. Either they are accepted into the new house and move, or they are rejected and must begin the process again in the following semester...
...club has a narrow entrance on a narrow alley off a narrow side street, far from the virtual malls and 3-D video-game amusement parks that serve as the cash cows for the Metaverse's E-money economy. Inside, there's a few Rasters on break, but it's mostly people ``wearing'' more creative avatars. In the Metaverse, there's no part of your virtual body you can't pierce, brand or tattoo in an effort to look weirder than the next...
...gives information on the full range of home-buying services, from photographs of the houses to the names of builders and mortgage lenders, lawyers and title companies. Using a search program, prospective buyers can enter preferences, such as price range, style, school district and number of bedrooms, and thus narrow the field to homes that meet those criteria...
Lebed: Positively. It's my ``porcupine'' theory of command. No commander can know everything. He must rely on deputies, competent in the narrow areas assigned them. His responsibility is to make sure none of them tugs the blanket to one side of the bed. A deputy who answers ``Yes, sir'' to every stupid thing his commander says can get his boss into serious trouble. He must have the courage to take a stand and be able to defend...
Fluent in Latin and Greek, Vienna is a Northerner who lands in the small town of Winsville to marry a man who will never appreciate her intensity or intellect. Like some fiercely independent Victorian heroines, Vienna is doomed to the life of a pariah by the narrow-mindedness of others. She is betrayed and abandoned by friends and lovers; her children remain outcasts by association; she is destroyed by the death of those dearest to her. Vienna is, above all, a woman for whom brilliance and sensuality provide a painfully meager shield against the truculence of fate...