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Systems Analyst

What is this job like? These workers figure out how to use computers to get things done. They tell businesses and other organizations which computers and software to buy, and they decide how…

A Shock to the System?

Several Tropical Countries Make Their Debut at the Winter Games by Catherine McNiff Related Links 2010 Winter OlympicsMemorable Olympic MomentsBirth of the Modern…

The Solar System

  Comet Hale-Bopp Triton The Flap Over Pluto New Uranian Moons Discovered A Richter Scale for Close Encounter Asteroids Caliban and Sycorax Ultraviolet Death May Follow Asteroid Devastation…

The U.S. Highway System

At the beginning of the 20th century, an uninterrupted system of nationwide highways did not exist. Beginning in 1811, a National Road had been constructed between Cumberland in western Maryland and…

Computer Systems Analyst

Mary Williams Tell us about your work---what do you do? I design , develop , and support computer systems . I work with my…

Computer Systems Engineer

Anonymous Tell us about your work---what do you do? I am in computer systems engineering and I manage an engineering and distribution business…

Brewer's: Bothie System

The Scotch system of building, like a barrack, all the outhouses of a farmstead, as the byres, stables, barns, etc. The farm menservants live here. (Gaelic, bothag, a cot or hut, our booth…

Brewer's: Continental System

A name given to Napoleon's plan for shutting out Great Britain from all commerce with the continent of Europe. He forbade under pain of war any nation of Europe to receive British exports…

Brewer's: Spinoza's System

The “system of Spinoza” is that matter is eternal, and that the universe is God. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SpinsterSpinning Jenny A B C D E F G…