Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only the hardest '50s egghead could deny that Halberstam has cobbled a blue-chip beach read. Shrewdly designed for today's shorter attention spans, The Fifties plugs in dozens of set pieces, vignettes and profiles from the period spanning the last days of World War II and the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy TV debates. The book ends abruptly with Dean Acheson complaining that both candidates appeared too cold, calculating and boring. It is Halberstam's way of trying to freshen up an old point: that the debates, in which Nixon looked uncomfortably shifty and Kennedy came off as poised and decisive...
This week AT&T will win the competition to market the first hand-held computer when it rolls out its highly touted Personal Communicator 440. Part computer and part cellular telephone, the $3,000 machine -- based on AT&T's Hobbit chip for portable devices -- will let users send faxes and electronic mail by writing on the small display screen with a special pen. It will also transmit and store voice messages as well as make cellular phone calls. Designed and manufactured by EO, a new Silicon Valley company that is 50% owned by AT&T, the Communicator will have...
Morgan said he is enjoying the new environment and working hard. He won't say, however, what the Blue Jays paid him as a signing bonus. Morgan had an important bargaining chip: he could always return to Harvard in the fall, leaving the Toronto organization empty-handed...
Though banks lost most of their blue-chip corporate clients years ago to Wall Street's capital markets, they still retained another profitable part of banking: the small and mid-size business borrower. But that has changed in the past few years. The spread of computer technology and sophisticated new loan strategies slashed both the risk and cost of lending to small business owners. Soon financial giants such as Merrill Lynch and John Hancock, as well as smaller finance companies like Access Capital, went after the banks' last domain of business borrowers...
...some good points to the store; a couple of video games, a shorter walk for Quadlings, and a pleasant server. On the other hand, the video games were unplugged on a recent visit. While the chocolate was a disaster, showing many frozen flakes and a bitter taste, their chocolate chip ice cream showed flashes of the old Emack and Bolio's genius which earned them a Best of Boston award. The vanilla ice cream was rich and the chocolate chunks were large and at the right temperature to melt in your mouth...