Word: whole
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...exists as a data base, an electronic version stored in a massive computer memory. At first glance, this may seem unremarkable; the difference between a lot of ; words on the page and on some terminal screen appears to be chiefly one of weight. But that is not the whole story. Electronic information can be made available to interested readers in a manner not possible through print. The task of devising software that would ferret out new uses for the OED2 was assigned to the University of Waterloo in Ontario. There a team of computer scientists led by Gaston Gonnet...
...free-form answer to the assigned topic, "Women, Where Are We Going?" Heidi's soliloquy ends with these words: "I don't blame any of us. We're all concerned, intelligent, good women." Pause. "It's just that I feel stranded. And I thought that the whole point was that we wouldn't feel stranded. I thought the point was that we were all in this together...
...help anxious cooks, the USDA and other Government agencies have toll-free hot lines for consumer questions. Some requests are a bit exotic. "Did we really have to throw out the whole roast just because my daughter-in-law mistook a daffodil bulb for an onion and sliced it over the meat?" asked a worried caller. Yes, replied the hot line, the bulbs are toxic to humans. Other questions indicate a lot of basic ground needs covering. Two samples: "Can spaghetti sauce left open on the counter for three days hurt me?" and "Is it O.K. to eat groceries that...
...experts have been warning that couples who enter fertility programs should draw up agreements dictating the fate of such eggs should there be a death or divorce. Says Ellen Wright Clayton, assistant professor of law and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University: "Fertilized eggs are going to give rise to a whole new set of legal issues...
What particularly grates about the Mommy Track is that it hews to the old- fashioned notion of singling out women rather than men for complete parental sacrifice. Another problem is that the system could put a woman on a slow track for a whole career, even though the critical child-rearing years constitute only one brief phase of her life. Says Jayne Day, mother of a six- year-old daughter and a partner in the Manhattan office of the accounting firm Peat Marwick: "How, at age 25, is anyone going to make a personal decision about what track...