Word: central
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...consumer market to better-heeled corporate customers. Margins in that market are shriveling as Dell and Compaq bundle heaps of services, software and support to sweeten the deal for finicky clients who have plenty of negotiating leverage. "All brands come with an unbelievable amount of management software, fast CPUs [central processing units] and everything else you need," says Roger Baumann of Affiliated Networks, a small Miami marine-parts e-commerce firm. "It comes down to who's going to sell me those features for the lowest price...
BILL CLINTON brought majority leader Trent Lott a gift from Central America...
Much of this chapter is devoted to President Woodrow Wilson's steadfast and not entirely popular efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict between the Allied and Central Powers. There is nothing new here, but there is value in being reintroduced to an American leader whose every move was not dictated by public whim. This installment, in addition to offering moving reflections from still-living World War I veterans, also features an appearance by Wilson's grandson, the Rev. Francis Sayre. He talks about how his widowed grandfather fell for Edith Galt, a woman he met golfing...
...what if he wanted to add stuff that resided on someone else's computer? First he would need that person's permission, and then he would have to do the dreary work of adding the new material to a central database. An even better solution would be to open up his document--and his computer--to everyone and allow them to link their stuff to his. He could limit access to his colleagues at CERN, but why stop there? Open it up to scientists everywhere! Let it span the networks! In Berners-Lee's scheme there would be no central...
...story experts are still struggling to make sense of. In hindsight, what appears to have happened is that several diverse forms of communications and information processing, each following its own technological track, emerged from stuttering starts, built up speed and then converged suddenly into a kind of Grand Central Terminal known as the World Wide...