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Fewer and fewer famous brands make what they sell. Apple no longer assembles the bulk of the iMacs it sells. Hewlett-Packard, the world's leading brand of personal printers, doesn't make a single one. Nor does Cisco make the complex digital switches and routers that make up the backbone of the Internet. Instead, each of these companies (and the list grows daily) is throwing its financial and intellectual capital into product research, design and innovation--conceiving the next generation of gadgets and services, and marketing them under trusted brands...
Vautin said the University was spared from severe problems because power was not lost on the north part of campus that houses the bulk of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ science labs...
...said the price tag—which would have ranged from $375,000 to $575,000—would have gone to hire local Thais, who after being trained by Porter, would have completed the bulk of the study...
...group of suspicious Danes entered Sweden, a single cop went undercover to monitor their moves. "He trailed behind them, watched them organize at a hotel and then take to the streets to execute their plan the same day," says Landahl. The Swedes say AFA-linked radicals subsequently formed the bulk of the black-masked contingent that began pelting police during the Goteborg street rally on June 15. Last week six Swedes went on trial for violent rioting and attempting to seriously injure a policeman. "What happened was not a spontaneous outburst of violence," Landahl says. "It was planned." Five more...
...while voting irregularities in the Sunshine State may have garnered the bulk of our attention during those strange days, ballot problems weren?t specific to Florida. According to a new study by social scientists at MIT and Caltech, as many as four to six million votes were lost in the 2000 presidential election, all thanks to voting machine problems, ballot confusion, lost absentee votes and failed voter registration...