Word: swap
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born said that given MIT's interest in the property, the city should move to arrange a swap with the university. She suggested that the city should trade the fire station for some other MIT holding...
...temperature to less than 63[degrees]F to prevent neurological damage during the critical period after her own heart was removed and before her new, golf ball-size heart was in place. Not until the patient reached this state of suspended animation was it safe to make the surgical swap...
...have dispensed with all that tired, wetware chitchat. Our Thinking Tags could have negotiated any fruitful common ground. These tags, the brainchildren of Borovoy and a team of researchers at M.I.T.'s Media Lab, are little wearable computers that can seek out other "smart" tags in a room and swap data. In that way, one can, upon approaching a stranger at a crowded, Thinking Tag-equipped conference, immediately know whether it's worth the brain cycles to attempt social intercourse...
Spend a few minutes analyzing Hurwitz and it's easy to see why he doesn't care. As it happens, he is neck deep in U.S. claims resulting from the $1.6 billion collapse of a Texas savings and loan he controlled. There was talk of a "debt-for-nature" swap involving Hurwitz' redwoods and the litigation, but banking regulators wouldn...
...Disney Co. to run the Hilton Hotel Corp. in February, he vowed to make Hilton a leader of the $20 billion U.S. gaming industry. Bollenbach hit the jackpot with just one roll of the dice last week, when Hilton agreed to acquire Bally Entertainment in a $2 billion stock swap that creates the world's largest casino company. "Big guys win in any consolidating industry," Bollenbach says...