Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...numbers have grown a little bit in the past few years, but this could be a result of the rising tide of applications," she said...
...would like to teach a bit more writing and have more people take econometrics before they leave," Metrick said...
...Crooked-straight. This is all a bit Delphic, even coming from someone who is widely acclaimed by his peers--at least for publication--as a visionary. To have a conversation with the man himself is to be instructed in the art of seeing both sides of an equation. He thinks the Internet has been oversold, yet he's visibly excited about his equity interest in the Internet Shopping Network, an online retailer. He claims to despise hype and yet is manifestly adept at its use. He thinks Beavis and Butt-head are, as he once told Rolling Stone, "breathtakingly horrible...
...hunting for lowly pawns at the other end of the board. In fact, at the point of maximum peril, Blue expended two moves--many have died giving Kasparov even one--to snap one pawn. It was as if, at Gettysburg, General Meade had sent his soldiers out for a bit of apple picking moments before Pickett's charge because he had calculated that they could get back to their positions with a half-second to spare...
Leno, meanwhile, is the happiest man in show business, so energized that he seems ready to burst out of the TV set. He bounds into the audience each night to shake hands with the crowd and cackles enthusiastically through every interview. The program is packed with elaborately produced comedy bits, most of them obvious and witless. It's Lincoln's birthday? Jay is seen as Honest Abe doing a TV commercial for his law practice. Guest Ellen DeGeneres has a touch of the flu? The show hires an ambulance to drive her onto the set. What separates Leno from Letterman...