Word: client
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...female author and inspired by the portrait. Text and image hang side by side like open pages of a book, imbuing the silent figures with history. Meet “Mistress Victoria Chi,” a dominatrix who leaves her S&M dungeon after she falls for a client mid-whip. She shies from the camera, her black hair brushed over one eye. By her side, “Violette Nozieres” stares wistfully at the ground. Her head is decorated with a black satin band, her face delicately concealed by a piece of lace. The accompanying biography...
...have turned mildly bullish on the Chinese economy. A February survey conducted by Merrill Lynch saw the number of fund managers who believed China's growth would be lower in the next 12 months shrink drastically. Jing Ulrich, chairman of China securities at JPMorgan in Hong Kong, noted after client meetings that "attitudes toward China's efforts to counter the economic slump seem to have turned more positive." The happy mood also showed up in Chinese stocks. By mid-February, the Shanghai stock market had surged more than 30% since the beginning of the year, making it the world...
...could see progress on restarting Zimbabwe's moribund economy. And it's rumored that Gono's job may be on the chopping block. Foreign investors are eager to dive back into the fray, sensing major opportunities in an economy that will have to be rebuilt almost from scratch. One client of African Banking Corp. is ready to multiply its investments by a factor of 20 once the dire political situation stabilizes. Others remain cautious. "When we see a solid set of reform processes with realistic objectives put into play by the government, then we'll be encouraged to increase...
Many lovers of Google Talk—a commonly used instant messaging client and procrastination method for students—received an unwelcome surprise yesterday as they were bombarded with messages propagated by an internet worm. The messages directed users to ViddyHo.com—which asked visitors to provide login information for their Google Talk accounts—through a TinyURL.com link. The worm then used that information to send replicas of the message to contacts listed on the newly-infected user’s Google Talk account. ViddyHo.com has been linked to Hoan Ton-That of San Francisco...
...worm struck many Harvard students who received messages on Google Talk, Google’s instant messaging client, directing them to click on a link that led via TinyURL.com to ViddyHo.com...