Word: chipping
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Having done so, the most powerful monetary movers and shakers on the planet invariably line up for an informal boardroom lunch. Reaching for paper plates and plasticware, the FOMC members help themselves to a buffet that last week featured cold cuts, soft drinks, salads and chocolate-chip cookies--a special favorite of many members. Then they headed back to their offices to watch Wall Street's reaction, while bankers across the country adjusted the loan-rate signs in their windows...
When that happens, Japanese consumer-electronics giants like Sony and Panasonic are likely to stage their own assaults on the market and chip away at Nokia's lead, warns Iain Gillott of IDC. But Ollila is undaunted. "In 1991," he recalls, "people were telling me, 'Now that you've been able to get [your mobile-phones business] into the black, you should sell it quick, because the Japanese will...
...Syrian army has occupied Lebanon for almost as long as the Israelis have, and Damascus retains de facto military and political control over its fragile neighbor. Israel's Lebanon dilemma had for most of the past decade been a key bargaining chip in Syria's efforts to negotiate a peace agreement involving Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Israel's unilateral retreat from Lebanon has now deprived Damascus of that leverage, calling Syria's bluff. Moreover, it's beginning to raise the question among Lebanese of what purpose is served by Syria's presence, which has been presented...
...Silicon-chip warfare takes smarter, smaller weapons--the type that debuted in the Gulf War--and weaves them into an unprecedented net of knowledge about the enemy's whereabouts. These data may do more to change the face of war than any new weapons--so long as G.I.s don't drown in them. Gleaning information on the enemy's whereabouts remains challenging, which is why the Army is striving instead to track, on computers, the location of the good guys. If a unit in the valley below doesn't show up on your screen as a "friendly," you're free...
Smell, for example, perhaps the most primal of senses, is being digitized the way sight and sound have been. The basics of what makes a smell can be captured molecularly and expressed digitally on a chip at a reasonable price. Companies like DigiScents of Oakland, Calif., and Ambryx of La Jolla, Calif., have already developed digital odors. Cyrano Sciences of Pasadena, Calif., is developing medical-diagnostics technology that can "smell" diseases...