Word: disappear
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MAILSAFE Under new postal regulations intended to stamp out mail fraud, anonymity will disappear for anyone who rents a private mailbox from a store like Mailboxes Etc. A photo ID will be required to set up a private mailbox, and a special identifier, called a PMB number, must be part of the address. The U.S. Postal Service is hoping that consumers will be more alert to rip-offs by phony charities or fly-by-night operators that don't have a real street address...
Reports of the death of modern recording labels, however, are greatly exaggerated. For one thing, MP3 tracks aren't exactly the easiest things to find-ask any student who has spent hours surfing the net to find a particular song. Sites which offer free downloads can appear and disappear in a matter of hours and many illegal recordings don't always have quality sound. And there is something about having the actual album that a folder of MP3 files will never be able to duplicate...
...Much of her hedging on controversial women's issues stems from her need to attract Christian Right voters, and I wouldn't be surprised to see that change should she be elected into office. Ostensibly, she is not pro-choice, but anti-abortion tracts have a tendency to mysteriously disappear from her speeches...
...debate that many thought would be resolved when Council President Noah Z. Seton '00 and vice president Kamil E. Redmond '00 were elected, the tug-of-war between political activism and providing student services, refuses to disappear quietly into the night...
Disciples of Piaget have a tolerance for--indeed a fascination with--children's primitive laws of physics: that things disappear when they are out of sight; that the moon and the sun follow you around; that big things float and small things sink. Einstein was especially intrigued by Piaget's finding that seven-year-olds insist that going faster can take more time--perhaps because Einstein's own theories of relativity ran so contrary to common sense...