Word: afar
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...world's consumer cell phones, almost 180 million last year. Yet even mighty Nokia risks developing an achilles' heel - namely, the soon-to-be-hot corporate market. Fortune 500 companies are desperate for phones that double as computers so travelling execs can tap into corporate data from afar. "It's an important growth market, and Nokia is worried that the PC guys like Microsoft are coming into that space as computers and phones converge," says London-based International Data...
...going to be the first to go,” said Christopher W. Gerry ’04, whose light-colored neck whiskers are hardly noticeable from afar. “I want to outlast my roommate, at least, but it itches like hell...
International students like Bezhuashvili must often view such major events in their home countries from afar. Some face personal turmoil and deep ambivalence about being at Harvard during these times. But these challenging moments also facilitate more sharing of first-hand experiences in the classroom and in the dorm...
Until you move away from home. You watch from afar as your precious college team struggles and falls to a team from a nowhere conference like the Sun Belt. Wham, bam—a couple bad plays and that bowl berth is looking pretty slim...
...book was conceived while she was researching her last work, The Ultimate Terrorists. Instead of studying her subjects from afar, Stern decided to actually call some of the individuals who had tried to obtain chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. What she found was a startling perspective on the mystery surrounding religious militants...