Word: chipping
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...didn't have a steed good enough to enter this year's Run for the Roses. Neither did Russell Reineman, a Chicago businessman and stable owner who had been trying to unload a Derby hopeless called War Emblem--a 3-year-old with a small chip in each ankle and a big chip on his shoulder. "He's a mean-spirited horse," notes Baffert...
...that, of course, is all that software amounts to: instructions that tell the hardware what to do. But given the growing complexity of our computing needs, for tasks like designing a way to fit more transistors onto a chip, even groups of genius programmers may not be up to the undertaking anymore...
...musician Noel Gallagher are customers too. "I would fear walking into Anderson & Sheppard," says Bill Prince, GQ's deputy editor. "But Kilgour understands younger men." Gucci is fighting back with its own bespoke service. "It's clearly a response to the fact that a bespoke suit is the blue chip element in a man's wardrobe," says Prince. - Lauren Goldstein
Lewis says that while there may be problems with recruiting in the post-1987 era of coaches combing the nation in search of blue-chip recruits, the process is an important stimulus for diversity...
...always had this idea about doing something big and spectacular,” Sethna says. “He used to talk about how every elevator would one day have a computer chip, and even used to talk about artificial intelligence. It was very exciting being around...