Word: cores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...start with its core competence, operating systems. Vista is a disaster and Windows 7, its successor, is two years away. By then, the market for desktop/laptop operating systems will be smaller, perhaps dramatically so. The sweet spot is steadily moving away from "computers" to mobile devices - phones, mainly - and Microsoft's mobile operating system has never captured anyone's imagination, let alone the market. (In its first quarter of existence last year, Apple's iPhone overtook Windows Mobile...
Palfrey said that he does not expect to see much change at the Berkman Center, as the core faculty members will continue to teach and the students involved in the clinical programs will continue to learn...
...Some have argued that this is a uniquely Latin American phenomenon. In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1982, Gabriel García Márquez addressed a regional “madness” afflicting the continent, perhaps at the core of what he famously described as “one hundred years of solitude” in his most celebrated novel. Although García Márquez may be correct about Latin America as a whole, the Bolivian navy does not fit his regional argument. This is not just because other landlocked countries, like Rwanda and Serbia...
...everyone embraces this development as a panacea. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan argued in the Financial Times on March 16 that “we will never have the perfect model of risk.” Amidst a paradigm-shifting financial crisis originated at the core of financial markets, Greenspan felt the need to remind the audience of the FT that despite the amazing complexity of existing models and their relative success for many years, the very fact that they are an abstraction of reality makes it impossible for them to flawlessly predict where the market will go tomorrow...
...more difficult task for Obama, however, might be uniting Florida's hard-core Democrats behind him, starting with convincing them that he's as passionate as Clinton about seating their 210 delegates (only 67 of which Obama won) at the Denver convention in August. Florida Democratic leaders like Gelber and Wexler insist Obama is indeed battling to seat the delegates and that Florida will rally behind him. After Obama's visit this week, Gelber argues, the state's Clinton-Obama tensions will dissolve: "You're going to see everyone pivot and look toward November." But Obama can't waste...