Word: pinning
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...just waiting for a ‘Jews for Kerry’ pin,” joked another student at the convention...
...Indeed, he's so obsessive about bowling that his manager, Lee Siu-lan, once berated him for going two years without winning an award because he wasted too much time at the bowling alley. Lau shrugs it off, explaining that he likes the game's lack of ambiguity: "The pin is there, the ball is in your hand. If you can't hit the pin, it's your fault...
...bats are still there—Harvard still leads the Ancient Eight in home runs and RBI. But pin the Crimson’s torrid Ivy winning streak—they swept the Columbia Lions (8-16, 5-5 Ivy) in Friday’s doubleheader 4-3 and 10-2, bringing the streak to five games—on something quite different...
MONEY: Gas gambits, credit cards get PIN-pricked, Google mail...
...swiped identities and pilfered credit cards, he and IBM engineer Franco Motika set about developing a new generation of smart cards. The recently patented, theftproof card contains a computer chip and features a tiny numerical keypad right on its face. The cardholder inputs a PIN, stored directly in the card's circuitry; the same code must be entered before each use. The PIN turns the card on and generates a unique one-time-only transaction code. For approval, that code has to synch with an algorithm run by the credit-card company's computer. The smart card...