Word: buffer
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...should be possible if we decompile the pattern buffer...
Transporters can send people instantly from one location to another by converting their molecules into energy, then reassembling them. Every living being has a distinct pattern of molecules; the pattern buffer fixes the configuration by adjusting for the Doppler effect -- the apparent change in the frequency of the energy waves caused by motion...
...letters, by making it difficult for students to withhold all funds, are supposed to provide a buffer between the council and complete bankruptcy...
...living. But peasant families tend to have two or three children in Mexico City, while those who immigrate to the U.S. average four or five children. In crowded Mexico City each child imposes steep costs on a family, while in the U.S. welfare payments and other social safety nets buffer those costs. These skewed incentives convey similar signals to poor young women in America's inner cities, who in many cases see no reason to defer having children...
...price. Maxxam doesn't want to sell the whole 44,000 acres -- about one-fifth of Pacific's holdings -- on which fast-growing second- and third-generation redwoods are reaching market size. But it is willing, perhaps eager, to sell Headwaters and a logged-over 1,500-acre buffer zone for something more than $500 million, the Forest Service estimate of the value of the timber. Hamburg thinks the figure % is far too high...