Word: stalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...scenes like this: A guy in a men's room hears chortling in the next stall, so he puts his ear next to a hole in the wall and gets tickled by an enormous...
...person from Albany St. reported to CPD that a person's arms were hanging from under a toilet stall. Emergency response arrived and revived the person who had overdosed on heroin. Personnel was notified, and the victim was taken to Cambridge Community Hospital...
With so many powerful forces in play, technology could hyperaccelerate to the stars with stunning rapidity, or it could stall completely. My expectation is that it will do both, with various technologies proceeding at various rates. The new technologies may be self-accelerating, but they are not self-determining. They are the result of ever renegotiated agreement with society. Because they are so potent, their paths may undergo wild oscillations, but I think the trend will be toward the dynamic middle: much slower than the optimists expect, much faster than the pessimists think humanity can bear...
...frustrating that the administration could respond to anything by saying, 'We have a committee, we're looking into it, you have to wait,'" says Amy C. Offner '01, a member of PSLM. "They were just using this procedural device to stall and avoid the question. That was the purpose of the committee...
...surplus the fund is currently running to pay down the national debt over the next decade or so, putting the economy on sounder footing and freeing up more money (which now goes to debt servicing) to keep the fund going a while longer. It's a stall tactic, but one with tangible overall benefits in the meantime...