Word: controller
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...power to keep Europeans from colonizing their territory. Sugar, even in the Caribbean, was grown in micro-climates and these micro-climates existed in West Africa (eg, Sao Tome). Europeans attempted to establish plantations in Africa in the late seventeenth century. They did not have the political and military control to do so and were forced to treat with Africans as equals. The plantations were established in the Americas instead, and the expensive transatlantic slave was necessary to bring them labor. In this sense the slave trade was a result of African strength. Europeans bought slaves, they did not obtain...
Increased network usage means that most computer users will not notice any changes. Osterberg added that Harvard can only control its own network and not the entire Internet...
...This should increase, or at least maintain, network performance for our users," he wrote. "Note, however, that we can only control the performance of our local network...
...that's what this place is all about: Spin Row, where the ink- stained wretches wield sweet, if momentary, control over the professional flacks. Once, they may have shut us down. And tonight we pay them back...
...with stone-throwing youths occasionally backed by lone gunmen and even Palestinian policemen, while the Israeli response piled up victims whose funerals sparked new confrontations. When a cease-fire collapsed within hours of being concluded on Monday, it was a sign that the violence may have spiraled beyond the control of the responsible leadership on both sides...