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...made over the past 10 years, looking at the relationships between the items people buy and hundreds of other variables such as time of day and price. The data miners are constantly searching for exploitable relationships--say, between sales of cameras and atlases. Consider: a slow-selling line of chicken pieces was slated for discontinuation at Sam's Clubs. But the software noticed that the customers who did buy the product were huge spenders on other merchandise. So the item wasn't necessarily a loser if it helped keep those customers coming...
...gilded gold frame looms high above the stage, hanging from invisible fish line. A pile of oriental rugs, an aging piano and a giant chicken wire sculpture reflect the clutter of the characters’ minds...
...tried to give it teeth. (Last week he was rewarded with a promotion to lead the central bank). Nonetheless, investors have been duped in the past couple of years by a string of spectacular stock-market scandals. Consider Lu Liang, for example, who took control of a listed chicken breeder in 1999 and renamed it China Venture Capital. After raising an astounding $650 million from investors, he used 125 brokerage offices to manipulate his firm's shares. Under a pseudonym, he even wrote newspaper articles extolling the stock, which rose 370% before crashing in 2001. Lu bragged in an open...
...idea of thinking that makes me a hero or anything like that...If I jump into an icy river and save a child, and I am lucky enough to get out, then fine. I would hope that I would do that, but maybe not. Maybe I would be a chicken...
...today only 4% of U.S. households have HDTVs, and for years the best advice for those who wanted one was to wait. That created a classic chicken-and-egg situation. Consumers were reluctant to purchase HDTV sets because they were too expensive and there wasn't anything worth watching on them; broadcasters were reluctant to invest in HDTV programming until there was an audience big enough to make it worth their while...