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Majority leader Mitchell, after sitting through weeks of Moynihan's professorial perorations without seeing much legislative progress, has thrust himself into the leadership void. Among Mitchell's suggestions was a compromise that would combine an employer mandate for large firms (a face- saver for the Clintons, since most large firms already provide health insurance) and an individual mandate for workers in firms with fewer than, say, 10 on the payroll. Federal subsidies would help employees pay their premiums...
With what looked like four seconds to play in Harvard's regulation season, Brian Farrell suddenly added another five minutes to the clock, scoring a game-tying goal at St. Lawrence which might looked back upon weeks from now as a season-saver...
Chances are that your monitor is almost always in operation while you're working at your computer, so many users have one or more so-called screen savers installed on their computers. These programs normally stay dormant in the background (that is, somewhere in your computer's RAM, or random-access memory). When no keystrokes or mouse movements are detected for a specified period of time, a screen saver kicks in. Popular programs feature odd-looking shapes, fish, mountains or even flying toasters...
...original rationale behind a screen saver was to prevent a phenomenon called burn-in which plagued older generations of computer monitors. When the same image was left on the screen for too long, the phosphorus layer on the surface of the screen would record that image and form a permanent "ghost" image. The "ghost" would then be visible at all times and interfere with the proper working of the monitor...
...Screen savers are used now more as a display of one's aesthetics than as a truly useful tool. Some people still worry about getting their screens "burned." But unless you have a really ancient monitor, you can set aside your worries and save the $30 you may spend for buying a screen saver...