Word: openers
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...apartment complexes now advertise home networks and ubiquitous-life features," says Lim Jin-hwan, vice president for solution sales at Samsung Electronics. In a nutshell, that means every electronic device in the home can be controlled from a central keypad or a cell phone. Biorecognition lock systems open apartment doors, and soon, Lim says, facial-recognition systems will be introduced...
...early 1970s with the birth of the Nasdaq electronic exchange for small stocks. The rapid growth of Nasdaq companies like Intel and Microsoft, coupled with Madoff's poaching of orders from the NYSE in the 1980s and '90s, brought more direct competition. Now things have broken wide open. Nasdaq and the NYSE are still the biggest players, but they must do daily battle with upstarts such as BATS and Direct Edge. Both exchanges have also gone from member cooperatives to for-profit companies - the NYSE by merging with electronic competitor Archipelago...
...Nighter: 1. A last-resort tactic to complete a long paper (freshman year); usual method of completing assignments (junior year). 2. Why CVS stays open 24/7...
Quincy House: 1. Nicknamed “The People’s House” because of its (formerly) open access dining hall. 2. Convenient location, loud parties, hideous architecture. 3. Great late-night grille. 4. Home of the pimpest Masters’ Residence ever...
Republican: 1. Rare political species targeted for extinction by the dominant, “open-minded” liberal populace which rules the Yard roost. Watch them as they graze...