Word: chasms
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...quest is for Sony to combine Japan's technical wizardry with America's creative panache and thus become the global multimedia entertainment company. "Something," says Idei, "like a Disney or Time Warner with our manufacturing base in Japan." That means bridging technology and entertainment, not to mention the cultural chasm between Japan and America. Ultimately, Idei aspires to create a global wireless network, a world in which satellite communications bring interactive entertainment to every living room and den. Says he: "Convergence is happening not only between audio and video but between computers and communication. There is a fundamental change...
...political stuff and be a mom" while ambling past a hunt-country-style wooden fence in tennis shorts and sweater. The ad is clearly intended to make a family-to-family connection between the Governor and her electorate. But its unintended effect is to remind viewers of the wide chasm that separates this upper-crust clan, which beds down at the 222-acre Pontefract Farm, from the average undecided voter trying to pay the taxes on a row house in Bayonne...
Tough talk from a Secretary of State works in the Middle East only if Washington has imaginative, practical ideas that can help bridge the chasm between two such mistrustful adversaries. And those ideas work, says Richard Haass, Middle East adviser under President George Bush, "only if the President is willing to back them up." Clinton could bask in the South Lawn signing of the 1993 agreement because Arafat and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin were willing to make peace on their own. The test for Clinton now is whether he is prepared to weigh in when the two leaders aren...
...going will be slow. Commands from Cooper's computer will take 11 minutes to travel from Pasadena to Mars; it will take another 11 minutes for the rover to acknowledge that it has received the instruction. To prevent Sojourner from blundering into a chasm or over a cliff, engineers designed it to move no faster than 1.3 ft. per minute. Onboard gyroscopes and lasers will help it feel for dangers the camera might have missed. If Sojourner spots an obstacle, it will try to avoid it or simply stop. "We'll give it a point...
...take Bob Student in a science class with an 89 average, he gets a 12, while Jane Student with a 90 will get a 14, which is a one-point difference that becomes a chasm in gradepoints," Hurwitz said, suggesting a 13-point A-/B+ grade...