Word: offload
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Universities should offset these changes, which could encourage professors to offload responsibilities onto TFs, by encouraging professors to be more involved in courses. The burden of running an entire course should not fall on the shoulders of someone who is pursuing a degree and only teaching on the side. Professors are paid to lead and teach courses and should be expected to act accordingly...
...enclosures, or attached files, has led to "podcasting," a way to capture the latest audio Webcasts on an iPod or other MP3 player. Net-radio stations and traditional broadcasters have been streaming live and archived content for a while. But without the time and software to capture, compress and offload the stream, you're tied to a terminal. RSS software such as iPodder lets you subscribe to, say, a weekly jazz podcast, an MP3 of which is downloaded every seven days and then dumped on your player next time you sync it. Bloggers have been keen, but the appeal...
...legal secretary throws up too many unanswerable questions about mine. Saved by the bell, I shuffle off and become a postman for a final three minutes with "Wild Cat." She didn't deliver, either. Deciding that speed dating is nothing more than a novel way to offload three minutes of verbal garbage, I move on to salsa dancing. But after a succession of mute partners with a phobia for physical contact, only a gray-haired fiftysomething called Katrina manages to loosen my collar a little. Katrina's friskiness doesn't make up for the fact that I have not received...
...theft for insurance purposes - to trade the art for his freedom. Former officers say such negotiations are not uncommon. "Deals are done all the time, let's be honest about it," says O'Carroll. "The Beit paintings are stolen for bargaining chips. [The thieves] know that they can't offload them, but when they are caught with drugs, or are facing charges on armed robbery, they can use the paintings for bartering. It's an Irish form of plea bargaining." In September the police recovered the paintings from a house in South Dublin. A portrait by Rubens, stolen in Cahill...
...Woolworths general merchandise stores, and there is now intense speculation - not denied by Kingfisher - that the retailer will rid itself of its electronics group, which includes Comet in the U.K., Darty in France and other chains in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Eastern Europe. Diageo wants to offload Burger King, the fast-food chain it has owned for about 13 years, to concentrate on alcoholic beverages...