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...Although the 11.5-megabyte limit was sufficient for the majority of users, some were running into limitations with this quota. As with all computing resources, there is always a demand for more space," Osterberg said...
...under our quota in terms of available scholarships," Crews said. "We're in the happy position of being constrained only by academic merit...
...serve as online-technology chair at the very newspaper you are reading. In addition, I am employed as an advanced support computer user assistant by Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), the people who brought you the Pink Book, the Science Center Help Desk and a 50-megabyte quota for your Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) account, among other goodies. Don't call me with your computer problems, though. Really. I'll hang...
...years ago in Flint, GM and the U.A.W. negotiated a deal they pretended was efficient: in exchange for labor peace, GM pays workers for a full day but allows them to leave early if they have finished their daily quota. GM and the U.A.W. also like to pretend that painful strikes are a necessary evil in building a world-class car company. But the pain of this strike will be mild by comparison if the company fails to resolve its deeper problems...
...guns, it is a signal that people have given up on beating violent crime through conventional means. But that does not justify making guns more easily available. Owning a hunting rifle, securely storing it in separate pieces well away from children and using it only to shoot a yearly quota of deer is quite different from carrying a loaded 9-mm pistol in a shoulder holster for the drive to work. Parents who introduce their children to guns may first want to take them down to the morgue and show them the bullet-riddled body of the latest gunfire victim...