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A.Word.A.Day--quaquaversal Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio 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. X-Bonus 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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