Word: send
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...wrap it in a string of digits that's more portable and (most important) smarter than its paper counterpart. Smart money? Well, yes. Because digital cash is endlessly mutable, you can control it much more precisely than paper money. Think about the $2,000 check you send to your daughter at college for expenses. How is that money really spent? Books...or beer? Electronic cash takes that relatively simple transaction--passing an allowance--and makes it into a much more intelligent process. And one that hardly requires something as old-fashioned as a bank...
...starters, you can send the money over the Internet encoded in an E-mail instead of sending a check. This saves you the trouble of balancing the checkbook at the end of the month, and it gives you the option of transferring the money from wherever you want: mutual fund, money market, even an old-fashioned checking account. Your daughter can store the money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin. And, perhaps best of all, you can program the money...
Hailed by members of both parties as an outstanding negotiator, Raines spent months working behind the scenes to make possible the agreement that has undoubtedly helped send the Dow soaring to new heights as our national economic confidence rises. Forsaking the vastly higher salaries and benefits available in the private sector, Raines has spent two and a half years of service in the fray of the nation's capital, with its media frenzy and partisan battles...
...time to send a message; it's time to take a stand; it's time to start focusing on the crime issue," Potvin says...
...from the government to attend the execution of 33 Hutu militants on Friday. While the European Union has expressed alarm, the Rwandan government believes the executions are essential to pacify the country, says TIME's Clive Mutiso. The government wants to show that "justice" is being done and to send a warning to those Hutu militants who continue to mount attacks...