From something I edited yesterday:
"Seventy separate facilities, many of which are individually operated, were on numerous desperate systems and technologies."
I had to laugh at that one.
"Disparate" = different
"Desperate" = really in need of something, like a dictionary
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Friday, May 22, 2009
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