Word: advent
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...Advent Networks Inc., a two-year-old Austin, Texas, maker of broadband equipment for cable operators, hit pay dirt in May when it signed Mitsubishi to be its distributor in Japan. Already the Asian trading titan has got an order to sell $5 million worth of Advent's equipment to Tokai Group's AIC Cable Network, Japan's fourth largest cable operator, over the next two years...
...first major break with the secrecy tradition. Under enormous worldwide pressure, the Swiss in 1986 froze accounts belonging to Marcos, and later transferred more than $600 million into an escrow account in Manila. The case marked the start of Swiss cooperation in international criminal cases and the advent of tough laws against money laundering. Any suspicions of money laundering must now be reported to a central monitoring agency in Bern. Strict rules hold senior bank managers accountable for the accounts of politicians, whatever country they come from...
Lawsuits over "digital rights" have swelled court dockets as artists and publishers disagree over who controls a new medium when an old contract is silent. Since the advent of film and then TV, each technological advance has caused a scramble to define ownership. But the issue has taken on heightened importance as new venues for copyrighted works increase the potential revenue from popular characters and stories. Characters can now be franchised from a book to a film and could eventually exist continuously on television, video, DVD and the Internet...
...with the advent of reunions and class spirit, according to Cadiff, a new clique has emerged—the class...
...Lucas seems to want to make that word obsolete: Clones is by far the most ambitious movie to be shot and, in certain theaters, exhibited with digital technology. For a movie industry that has been slow to embrace digital filmmaking, Clones heralds a breakthrough that Lucas compares with the advent of sound and the arrival of color. The whizzes at Lucasfilm, Panavision and Sony blended their expertise to devise sophisticated lenses and cameras that enable digital images to replace traditional 35-mm film. The result is an astoundingly clear image that lends a hyperreal glamour to the gritty city...