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...their investments in computer power. Their four top goals: to improve service to customers, target new customers, improve quality of products or services, and reduce total costs. Only the fourth objective would have much effect on productivity statistics as they are currently measured, which reflects an old-fashioned bias toward things that can be readily counted. Nowadays, simply counting widgets doesn't tell us what's going on. Brynjolfsson likens that approach to the reasoning of the drunk in an ancient joke: he looks for his lost keys under a streetlight not because that's where he dropped them...
...quipping endlessly about fashion ("It's almost impossible to have any style at all without the right dog"), pop culture and, always eagerly, himself. In the past few years, Mizrahi had cultivated the kind of celebrity that made him known to people who have never heard of shantung or bias cuts...
Professor of Law L. Lawrence Lessig is the special master in the anti-trust litigation against Microsoft. In January, Microsoft tried to have Lessig removed from the case, arguing that the professor had demonstrated bias against Microsoft in e-mail messages to Netscape executives...
...cities have been granted a lot of leeway to ban topless dancing in the interests of maintaining decency, and bars have already fought it on freedom-of-speech grounds and lost," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "So they needed a new hook." Their breast defense? "Naked bias." Lawyers for the bar argued that the law wrongly distinguished male topless dancing from female. It didn't work, with the high court deferring without comment to this appeals court ruling from last March: "We must recognize that the public reactions to the exhibition of the female breast and the male breast...
...many say the results of the study do notnecessarily indicate bias and are not necessarilysurprising...