"Do you really have to finish it?" ON Thursday, she sat cross-legged in the bedroom of Tom Blunt, who at the last minute had offered a spot on his floor when it became clear to Ms. Robinson that the hosts who had signed up for week 10 were too entangled in work commitments to welcome her, and she had sent out an e-mail scrambling for a replacement.
In both Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking bits of Latin America, if one person of the two communicating is female, besos/beijos (kisses) can be exchanged instead.E-mail has scrambled our expectations.
A12 BUSINESS IN THE MAIL -- With the holiday season approaching, the mail order industry is scrambling to assuage new public fears about unsolicited deliveries.
With the holiday season approaching, the mail order industry is scrambling not only to prepare for the busiest period of the year but also to reassure Americans suddenly leery of unsolicited mail.
Trained as a computer scientist, he developed a program in 1991 called Pretty Good Privacy, or PGP, for scrambling and unscrambling e-mail messages.
And many companies are scrambling to reset BlackBerry e-mail devices, desktop PCs and big data-center computers used to automate payrolls, purchasing and manufacturing.
This sent me scrambling back to my original e-mail confirmation, to make sure I hadn't somehow bought the wrong shoes.
Encryption software, most commonly PGP, scrambles your mail, making it impossible for a third party who does not own two special "keys" to read your mail.
So naturally the culture roots around in his garbage, parses his junk mail and breakfast-cereal boxes for clues to the riddle of why he isn't scrambling to walk the red carpet like everyone else.
He was scrambling to raise an extra $500,000 to cover shortfalls in the days before the show closed, according to the e-mail.
