Word: carl
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...long run, though, Palm's biggest threat may come from Microsoft, which makes the Pocket PC software platform for PDAs sold by Compaq, Casio and Hewlett-Packard. "Microsoft has tremendously deep pockets, and it seems to stick to things until it gets them right," says Palm CEO Carl Yankowski...
Reginald Vel Johnson, TV's lovable Carl Winslow, makes the leap from television sitcoms to his first feature role. In Chocolat, he plays Shawn Kemp, a 330-pound power forward who struggles with his eating problems and his confinement to the Portland Trail Blazers bench. He also cannot spell the foods he loves so much because, like so many NBA players today, he made the leap to the pros before he finished school. Of course, that was back when he could leap...
...Carl Takei, president of the Brown chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union rejected the coalition's claims to represent the interests of Brown minorities...
...buses are neither arbitrary nor inconsequential. Mandated by state and Federal Highway Administration regulations, the lines exist to ensure public safety. It is a violation of these regulations for a bus to be operating when person(s) are occupying the prohibited area that the line demarcates, and, according to Carl A. Tempesta, manager of Passenger Transport and Fleet Management Services, "drivers are responsible for enforcement of this safety regulation, which could mean turning away riders...
...began its life as an intelligence test, which its makers believed measured innate mental ability. Carl Brigham, the test's inventor, was part of the team that developed the Army intelligence tests during World War I; the first SAT was an adapted version of that test. Henry Chauncey, the founding president of the Educational Testing Service, and his boss during his previous job as an assistant dean at Harvard in the 1930s and '40s, James Bryant Conant, chose the SAT as an admissions test because Conant saw it as an IQ test. In those days, high school was a relatively...