Word: transferable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, transfers often decide to live with friends in other houses, perhaps because of a falling-out with their original blocking group. But the new transfer proposal would require this hypothetical friend to leave their house and enter the lottery as well...
This provides a strong disincentive to transfer: not only is the student assigned to a random house that may be as bad as the one she left, but she will probably have to do it without friends. This draconian proposal illustrates that students' happiness has become entirely subservient to the goal of racial and social diversity...
...short of cash but endowed with a wealth of computer skills, a clever employee is able to reach inside the boss's private data base and ``kidnap'' invaluable company secrets by locking them with a sophisticated encryption program. She then sends an anonymous electronic ransom note demanding a wire transfer of $3 million to a blind account in the Cayman Islands -- or the boss's proprietary data will be lost forever...
...told him things I had never told anyone in my life. I was really able to be more open. He was too.'' After more than three months of furious messaging, the couple had their first F2F (face-to-face) encounter. About six months later, Rance secured a job transfer from Chicago to San Francisco, anticipating a trip to the altar. But after six weeks, the couple broke up, crushed by conflicting schedules and personalities. ``He's a very selfish person, more than I ever thought,'' says a chastened Rance. ``He didn't want to give up anything but wanted...
...Colorado River - - he will get the message on his cell phone and come on the line. If Fred is too busy negotiating the rapids to talk, you can always leave him a voice- mail message. The reach of phone systems continues to extend across the planet, as cellular transfer stations are built and communications satellites are launched. If Motorola's ambitious Iridium satellite project is ever completed, prospectively in 1998, virtually no place on earth will be out of range. Satellites are also making possible commercial use of the Pentagon- developed global positioning system, which was employed by soldiers using...