Word: atlantas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Civil rights activists, most prominently the Rev. Jesse Jackson, fought unsuccessfully to have the election delayed and to have satellite voting stations set up outside Louisiana, in cities like Houston and Atlanta, where a large number of evacuees are still living. Turnout in predominantly African-American precincts was about 30% vs. nearly 50% for mostly white precincts, according to an analysis by GCR and Associates, done for the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority. Although Secretary of State Al Ater said the election went off without a hitch, Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition has threatened to sue for violation of voting rights...
...satellite-television provider in the U.S. Along with Goldman Sachs, they led a $46.6 million Sling investment in January. Doubtless, competition will come. Sony is marketing a box it calls LocationFree. Other Sling rivals include Emeryville, California-based Orb and Houston-based SnapStream. Set-top boxmakers such as Scientific Atlanta, recently acquired by Cisco, are incorporating place-shifting into their devices. But is there really a mass market of people who need real-time TV broadcasts on the road? The underlying technology is already with us: there are over 200 million broadband subscriptions in the world, growing to over...
...became the first man to fly at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound--a record that spurred his rival, U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager, to surpass it a month later; in a crash of Crossfield's single-engine Cessna in the mountains north of Atlanta. One of the post--World War II supersonic-jet aviators whom author Tom Wolfe said had "the right stuff," Crossfield dismissed the macho image of his field, saying that for most pilots he knew, the "main interest outside of work was raising apricots...
Continuing its coverage of the wide world of robosports, Fifteen Minutes brings you a preview of the wildly anticipated RoboCup US Open in Atlanta, Ga. The Cambridge Robotic Futbol Club (CRFC), the hometown favorites, will—according to club co-president Jeffrey K.L. Ma ’07—“create a big splash, and show everyone else we’re serious.” Expect big competition from Carnegie Mellon University, a club that’s been on the robot soccer circuit since 1997. Yet with the banning of “vertical...
...while, if we were talking about a poverty program or something like that, sometimes the people from the federal regional office in Atlanta would get interested. You’d get a rise out of somebody, and I think it just got harder and harder to do that. People just weren’t as interested,” he says...