Word: folder
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...that game" is Job One for Iraq's leaders. The very way the new government took power underscores the need. In a brief, stealthy ceremony improvised two days early to thwart feared attacks timed for the official date of June 30, U.S. proconsul L. Paul Bremer handed a blue folder to Prime Minister Allawi and with it sovereign responsibility for restoring Iraq to normality. Within an hour, Bremer was gone, his quick departure emblematic of Washington's exhausted efforts to birth a model nation...
...used to storing our computer files in folders and scrolling through lists of online-search results that it may seem perverse to try to reinvent the way we view these things on our computer screen. But two companies are aiming to do just that. Fractal:Edge has developed an interface called Fractal:PC ($20; available in March) that replaces file folders in Windows with a system of colored circles, above. Each circle represents a folder. If a circle is green, it means you have recently modified a file in that folder. If a circle is red, it means you haven...
...London with her husband, Patrick. But before she can join her staff in feeding and tending to residents, she must tackle mounds of paperwork - a task that takes up about a quarter of her time. "What elderly people need is time spent with them," she sighs, picking up a folder thick with documents. "Paper doesn't look after people." Government regulations mandate that Gallagher must assess the performance of each staff member six times a year, and review the care plans of each of her residents once a month. She must pay out certain benefits, like tax credit or maternity...
There’s always that one person who breezes into section, not a hair out of place, seemingly carefree. When she opens her perfectly organized folder, a straight A paper peeks out. As she leaves class, her cell phone rings with a call from one of her many admirers...
...recent weeks, iTunes use has exploded on the Harvard campus, with e-mails going out on house lists imploring studentsto download the program in order to create a wider network of shared music. Sadly, after this initial rush, many have remarked that, for the most part, their shared folder still extends only as far as the walls of their House or dorm...