Word: circuitous
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...assembly lines than as manufacturers. Many of these firms, ; such as Zeos, Graystar and PC Brand, don't invest in costly research or development, nor do they own expensive manufacturing plants. Instead they operate out of factories and garages. Rather than make PCs from scratch, they buy everything from circuit boards, displays and disk drives to entire computers from foreign firms that largely copy American PC designs. Says Brad Smith, vice president of PC research at Dataquest: "All you need to start a PC company today is a fax machine to take orders and a Black & Decker screwdriver to assemble...
...After losing in Iowa, the DeBoers tried to move the case to Michigan, and won their first victory. Last February, Judge William Ager of the Michigan Circuit Court, concerned that Jessica might never recover from losing the only parents she had ever known, ruled that she should stay where she was. He told the Schmidts that he understood their pain -- but that "prolonging this battle is going to have a terrible effect on this child." If they gave her up, he told them, they would be heroes, sacrificing their heart's desire for the sake of their child's well...
...June, Kimberly found a court that agreed. If a minor in Florida can choose abortion, ruled circuit court judge Stephen Dakan, "then surely a minor child has the right to assert a constitutional privilege to resist an attempt to remove her from the only home she has known . . . and declare her the child of strangers." In August, he will decide on visitation rights for the Twiggs. If all goes as planned, the legal maneuvering will be over by the time Kimberly starts the ninth grade. Says Kimberly: "I want my life back -- the way it was before the Twiggs...
...backbone of AT&T's communacopia strategy is the company's 2 billion- circuit-mile telephone grid. First built in 1879, the network has been continually upgraded. In the past 10 years, AT&T has replaced most of its old- fashioned copper-cable network with advanced fiber-optic wires, which give the grid a massive carrying capacity, or bandwidth. AT&T's long-distance system handles 150 million phone calls and data transmissions a day. It has the capacity to carry at least twice as much traffic, at no greater cost...
Throughout the judge's 198-page report to the Sixth Circuit of Appeals, Wiseman frequently notes the "credibility" and "good faith" intentions of Ryan, former director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations (OSI), in the denaturalization trial of John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk, a former Cleveland autoworker accused of being death camp guard "Ivan the Terrible," was extradited to Israel in 1986 and now sits on death...