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...actually are pursuing a particular deal. Journalists are asked to reveal the stories they are going to cover. One agent will ask questions for a while, then a second will ask many of the same. The two will compare notes, and one or the other will ask a third batch of queries. This process often takes 20 minutes; it can take two hours...
...first week of September, Microsoft officials will watch proudly as the first batch of Xbox game machines begins rolling off seven 280-ft.-long assembly lines at a new industrial park outside Guadalajara, Mexico. There may not be any Frisbees flying around, but the 124 landscaped acres could be any Microsoft campus back in Washington State. There is a screening room larger than the local movie theater and a cafeteria that includes a steak grill and a sushi bar (lunch price: $3)--all crowned by a glass-and-stone headquarters. Inside Building 12, engineers are working to make sure that...
This week, the U.S. Bureau of Census released a batch of statistics that demographers and social scientists find fascinating. According to the numbers from last year?s population count, about one in five Americans don?t speak English at home, over 2 million grandparents are raising their grandchildren, and the number of adults working out of the homes has grown by a third the past ten years...
...batch of tea leaves that landed on the FOMC's mahogany table on Tuesday morning...
DEFINING MOMENT The latest Oxford English Dictionary has a new batch of entries, among them Homer Simpson's famous...