Word: connection
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Listen to Walt Whitman on baseball. "Baseball is our game: the American game: I connect it with our national character," he said in 1888. "We are some ways a dyspeptic, nervous set: anything which will repair such losses may be regarded as a blessing to the race." Nice, isn't it? Just as compelling, in its own way, is the simple fact that Walt Whitman wrote something about baseball...
...Bombardier and Embraer jockey for position in a market that, while stagnant today, is expected to explode with demand. Ailing airlines of all sizes around the world have come to rely more and more on smaller, lower-maintenance regional jets - instead of clunky turboprops or inefficient larger craft - to connect hub cities with smaller markets. Analysts say regional jets are key to many airlines' survival...
Though he will likely leave the classroom when he becomes PBHA’s executive director, Corbin said he hopes to connect the service of PBHA to course work...
Most online piracy happens through what is called file-sharing software, such as Kazaa, Gnutella and Direct Connect, that links millions of computers to one another over the Internet. File-sharing software takes advantage of the fact that music and movies are stored as digital data--they're not vinyl and celluloid anymore, but collections of disembodied, computerized bits and bytes that can be stored or played on a computer and transmitted over the Internet as easily as e-mail. Using file-sharing software, people can literally browse through one another's digital music and movie collections, picking and choosing...
...Finnish rival, Nokia, which earned $1.07 billion net profit in the first quarter on sales of $7.4 billion. It managed to do so with fewer employees than Ericsson, by concentrating on the healthiest end of the business. Ericsson gets 80% of its revenue from mobile-telephone networks, which connect one phone to another - and the market for its telecom gear has been dead for two years. But Nokia focuses on mobile handsets, which fly off the shelves at a rate of 500,000 a day. The Nokia-Ericsson rivalry has an added intensity; it's hard to overstate the national...