Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is one of the hardest openings we've had," McNitt says. "A lot of the change is being pushed down to the unit [individual dining hall] level...
...that the renovations have taken place, Mayer says the meetings continue. He cites "after-action" review sessions and monthly unit meetings as opportunities for staff to voice their grievances...
Staff pay $12 per week in union dues, and every House unit in the HUDS system has a shop steward. But some HUDS staff say they haven't heard from their union representative in over a year...
Glass is certain that some of the books, videos and other products in the stores he would personally find offensive. He just doesn't know what they are. "When you have 100,000 unique SKUs," he says, using the retailer's term for an item--a stock keeping unit--"something is going to irritate somebody...
Such are the dreams of the nanotechnologists, engineers at places like M.I.T., Princeton University and Carnegie Mellon, who are already redefining the meaning of the word miniature. The prefix nano- refers to a billionth part of a unit--the size range these visionaries are talking about. Already, nanotechnologists have built gears and rotors far thinner than a human hair and tiny molecular "motors" only 50 atoms long...