Word: straying
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Harvard students not only rely on books brought from home for light study break entertainment. According to employees at several bookstores in the Square, many often stray from the textbook section, venture into children's books for purchases that demand less of their minds and their wallets...
...them to their targets, exposing crews to hostile fire. However, the grainy but riveting videos of U.S. bombs and missiles whistling down enemy smokestacks heralded a new way of waging war from the skies. New weapons with ever increasing accuracy lead the Pentagon to be confident that few will stray, thus limiting what military euphemists refer to as "collateral damage"--innocent, but dead, civilians...
...David won't stray. An old teacher said, "If you stuck a girl or a ball in front of David, he'd pick up the ball...
...every day one reads about the philosophy of Jurgen Habermas in the newspaper. Unfortunately, my surprise did not lead to gratification in this instance, because it seems to me that Cotton's understanding of Habermas, leaving much to be desired, has led him to some stray conclusions...
...still can't afford a high-speed ISDN line, the old modulator-demodulator still has a few tricks up its sleeve. Acer's Wireless PC Connection ($200) uses 900-MHz spread-spectrum technology to permit notebook users to stray up to 500 ft. from their phone jacks for backyard or poolside computing. Meanwhile, SuperSonic II ($200) from Diamond Multimedia yokes two modems (and two phone lines) together to bring the effective bandwidth up to 112 kbps (kilobits per sec.). If someone calls while you're online, the system just cuts the speed in half until you hang up the phone...