The result, says Mr Sakamoto, is that foreign workers send word home about the opportunities, and other good workers follow.

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Tell someone you know to send you the word when some resolution has been reached.

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One particularly troubling possibility (not yet confirmed) is that the virus may randomly send your own Word documents to others.

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It is not just that she is erudite (which she is), or that an outlandish word will send her to the dictionary (which it will).

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Perhaps to give him their own send off, perhaps to stop word getting out that he was dead and they were weakened.

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