Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early writing didn't spur invention the way writing does now. There were no technical journals to convey news of inventions, no patents to file. No, the main service of writing, like that of farming, was to permit bigger, faster social brains; to allow neurons to be packed more densely still, further boosting intellectual synergy. After all, it was via writing that royal bureaucracies kept large cities functioning. And writing also meant clear, precise legal codes, which kept urban life peaceful, even though people now lived cheek by jowl with lots of other people who were neither friends nor family...
...strategy works, this Christmas season we are seeing that Schwab may be the precursor rather than the exception. Robert Kenzer, CEO of Kenzer Corp., a retail executive-search firm, says retailers will have to do online, off-line and catalog in order to survive "or have strategic alliances that permit them to do all three." Companies such as Circuit City and eToys' competitors KB Toys and Toys "R" Us are proving they're not out of the game. "Clicks-and-mortar has a lot of inherent advantages," says Seema Williams, e-commerce analyst at Forrester Research. "For one thing...
...Sacramento, Calif., police will pay for one-way bus tickets out of state for homeless with family or jobs to go to. In its attempts to drive the homeless from downtown, San Francisco has even arrested nuns serving hot meals in the United Nations Plaza--for lacking a proper permit. Most of the 20,000 citations reportedly issued this year by San Francisco have gone unpaid, yet the campaign has become a flash point in the city's mayoral election...
...suggested that perhaps such an approach was unrealistic in light of what we know about sexual behavior among teens. And people let us know exactly what they thought, no holds barred. Whatever the opinion, it's been expressed - vociferously - this week. In our daily articles, limited space doesn't permit a great deal of depth in a single analysis. Here, in a longer format, we can address some of the concerns raised so prolifically in our virtual mailbag...
...Over boyfriends. And name-dropping. We're over our theses (before they've even started). Extra-long twin beds. Tealuxe. Fellowships. E-anythings. Allston Burr Senior Tutors. Smoking. Anxiety-induced vomiting and dream sequences. Aaron has discovered the plain front; he's over pleats. Over the learner's permit. Cafe Pamplona? Pretty much over that. Over the affordable Audi TT. Over the hill...