Word: switched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...step-father stayed outside to try to buy a third pass. My mom had agreed to switch with him every hour or so if he could not find an additional badge. I, however, was allowed to watch the whole...
...over other genes, like those responsible for elaborating wings and legs. That an eye might partly form on a limb made sense, but not so perfect an eye, complete with all its light receptors. Marvels William McGinnis, a Yale University biologist: "All you have to do, it seems, is switch on the eyeless gene, and you get these beautiful eyes...
Deciding that excellence in research is notworth harassment, I switch to channel#hehe. The boys follow. Ten of them. We hita communication barrier: I want to talkabout 'netsex, they want to have it. I recallRifraff's complaint: "What woman in her right mindwould want to log onto a straight sex channel?"This is worse than a final club party...
Steen and his technicians have foreseen the problem and are in the process of installing a new kind of network hub--called a switch--which should provide the requisite network bandwith...
While the NAB and the switch may seem to add needless complexity, they really don't. In fact, Steen is actually streamlining the UNIX configuration with these new devices. He is using the age-old computer science concept of abstraction--insulating different parts of the system from each other...