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Subject: A.Word.A.Day--quaquaversal
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quaquaversal (kwuh-kwuh-VUR-sal) adjective
Sloping downward from the center in all directions.
[From Latin quaquavers(us) literally, wheresoever turned, turned
everywhere +
-al.]
"Because the contemporary business organization is struggling with
the quaquaversal--that is, radiating out in every direction from
the center--nature of global business (geographic dispersal,
mutating labor arrangements, imploding distribution models),
teamware offers the hope of improving communication in ways
traditional applications simply can't.
Jeff Angus & Sean Gallagher, Keep your team in touch,
InformationWeek,
May 11, 1998.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few
drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
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