Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system, built in collaboration with Silicon Graphics, AT&T, Scientific-Atlanta and a long list of subcontractors, is almost dizzyingly complex. Huge racks of computer disk drives called file servers store movies and other "video assets" in digital form. Giant switches called ATMS shuttle prodigious quantities of data at blistering speeds. A set-top box with five times the computing power of a top-of-the-line IBM PC downloads images from the server at the rate of 30 pictures a second. Press a button on the remote, and the signal travels through cable-TV lines, fiber-optic wires, switches...
...billion in HUD grants and tax breaks to 106 economically-distressed communities. The biggest winners are three cities and six rural areas designated as "empowerment zones," a scheme designed to lure business to depressed areas first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses, while the rural zones -- Kentucky Highlands, Mid-Delta in Mississippi, and Texas' Rio Grande Valley -- should get $40 million apiece. In addition, Clinton unveiled second-tier recipients...
...James Carney, Michael Duffy, Jay Peterzell, Suneel Ratan, Elaine Shannon, Ann M. Simmons, Dick Thompson, Mark Thompson, Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller, Adam Zagorin, Melissa August New York: John Moody, Edward Barnes, Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Jenifer Mattos Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Elizabeth Taylor, Wendy Cole Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Austin: S.C. Gwynne Miami: Cathy Booth, Tammerlin Drummond Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Patrick E. Cole, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, Jeffrey Ressner, James Willwerth, San Francisco: David S. Jackson Denver: Richard Woodbury...
...environmental tests, which have discounted such possible causes as salmonella, shigella, campylobacter and yersinia strains of bacteria, were administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, S.C., and the Food and Drug Administration in Washington...
Today's preliminary results will reflect a compilation of all available data from a variety of sources. This includes information obtained from 340 questionnaires given to both affected and non-affected students as well as test results from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and the Food and Drug Administration in Washington...