Word: system
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...macro is a set of instructions that controls tasks within a given application or system. "W97M/Thus" is classified as a "macro virus," which means it causes damage with a set of instructions for a particular program...
...House system is a wonderful system. Its goal, to make smaller communities within a large university, is both effective and admirable. The construction of a student center was rejected, in large part, because it had the potential to draw away from House community. This is a valid rationale for its rejection...
...beginning of the semester, the folks in the admissions office caught their high-tech computer system playing tricks with them by scrambling the names of alumni in the database with the names of applicants. And that was not the first problem they have had. "We have a computer that has confused twins, but to my knowledge we have never done the wrong decision. But if we have some terrible mistake, it will come from the computer," Lewis warns. The office takes a variety of precautions against computer errors. Each applicant has a personal folder with interview reports and other more...
...Fact: Nineteen then-sophomore girls founded the Seneca after realizing that the Harvard social system was, according to co-president Julia M. Butler '01, "institutionalized and perpetuating...
...Fact: The Seneca has some up-there goals--according to co-president Alexandra B. Seru '01, "One goal is that we want to create a support system for owomen and really get to know each other in a non-competitive setting. The other goal is just as important. We want to set up a community for the entire school"--but still is a social organization. Technically Radcliffe did not die, and bras are too expensive these days to burn on a regular basis...