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TIP
(Trouble In Paradise) A freeware program from Gibson Research Corporation, Laguna Hills, CA (www.grc.com) that checks the health of Zip and Jaz drives. See click of death. See also tip and ring.
tip1
1. a payment given for services in excess of the standard charge; gratuity
2. a piece of inside information, esp in betting or investing

tip2
a glancing hit in cricket

tip [tip]
(design engineering)
A piece of material secured to and differing from a cutter tooth or blade.
(electricity)
The contacting part at the end of a phone plug.
(electronics)
A small protuberance on the envelope of an electron tube, resulting from the closing of the envelope after evacuation.

TIP
1.TIP - Texas Instruments Pascal.
2.TIP - A Unix program for interactive communication via serial lines.

Unix manual page: tip(1).


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com concluded that the "debt load" component of the calculation--which amounts to 30 percent of a FICO score--was "very bad" Still, thanks to the government's ability to use force in collecting taxes, its "payment history" (35 percent of FICO) was "very good" Tipping the balance was the 10 percent consideration of" new credit/inquiries," which, given "recent spending sprees" and other bailout- and stimulus-related phenomena, was judged "bad.
Birds are showing us how the heavy hand of humanity is tipping the balance of nature and causing ecological disruption in ways we are just beginning to predict and comprehend," said Audubon's Greg Butcher, co-author of the new study.
But it was better for St Mary's with a conversion tipping the balance their way 7-5 at Congleton
 
 
 
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