Word: proceeds
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...your kids to fib--or at least learn one of the grownup versions: using a pseudonym. Online, it's the best way to defend your privacy. This often arises when you go to a web page looking for something like free, trial software. Many sites won't let you proceed to their goodies without divulging some personal data--which they will shamelessly rent, sell or trade to who knows whom. So I simply make up a name, address, phone number, zip code or e-mail address. And I encourage my children to do the same...
Shortly before midnight Wednesday, Clinton phoned Sharif for the fourth time, offering conventional weaponry and financial aid if he didn't proceed. But by then Sharif was ready to give his scientists the order to set off the bombs in less than seven hours. Islamabad was incensed by what it considered lackluster international sanctions leveled against India for its provocative tests. Polls showed that 70% of Pakistanis wanted their government to detonate its devices. At a defense seminar, an officer in Pakistan's powerful military told the Prime Minister, "The time to conduct a nuclear test is now," then projected...
...consider the completely nonlinear narrative of your average shoot-'em-up "twitch" game, such as Quake II or Tomb Raider. (Twitch games test reflexes rather than brains.) Players are dropped down in a game and proceed, level by level, learning the skills they need to survive in this new place and acquiring knowledge that leads them to the end, to closure that is as satisfying and complete as the epilogue to a 500-page thriller. Why watch The Terminator when you can be the Terminator, tapping into your own fight-or-flight feedback loop and blasting and stun-gunning your...
...Kevin Arquit, former head of the FTC's bureau of competition, sees two ways in which an Intel suit could proceed. If the FTC focuses on withholding information from a competitor, as Intel did with Intergraph Corporation, that would be a less serious charge. A far broader argument would be accusing Andy Grove's gang of withholding vital technical data from computer makers unless they agreed not to incorporate any other products...
From Xi'an he will proceed to Shanghai, where he will meet the presidents of Fudan and Shanghai Universities. He will make another side trip to Suzhou, a nearby city famous for its Ming and Qing dynasty gardens, before returning to Shanghai for an alumni reception...