Word: cropped
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...phrase "I would like to rent a motorboat," MASTOR translated it audibly and flashed a picture of a boat onscreen. Although in its infancy-right now it can handle only English, Mandarin and a bit of Spanish and Arabic-the software is in pilot programs. Systems featuring MASTOR may crop up at airports, banks and hospitals in the next few years...
...intentions known until the last minute.That said, UC tradition won’t count for much else in this election. The patterns of succession that guided the Council for the last five years or so have broken down, and with no clear heir to the throne in sight, a crop of relatively inexperienced young politicos are going to try to rewrite the rules. In short, the big ticket is up for grabs, and for the first time in years, there are barely enough UC veterans in the junior class to fill up a ballot. Only seven members of the class...
...keep their product eco-friendly, Johnson Seafarms feeds its crop pellets of commercially caught herring and mackerel. Predators like seals and otters are repelled by a second net around the cages, instead of being shot or trapped. "We want to innovate the whole aquaculture industry to show it can be environmentally sound," says Rzepkowski. And at the same time save that great English culinary invention, fish and chips...
...that grow, pack, and ship half of the nation's fresh fruit, vegetables and nuts. Already, he says, California's Central San Joaquin Valley is missing about 70,000 of the workers it needs. Growers worry that the lack of manpower will next hit the $1 billion winter lettuce crop in the border region between California's Imperial Valley and the Yuma Valley in Arizona...
...endless litany of professorial rage directed at the Coop’s prices at the beginning of every semester. Some of it is undeserved. For instance, the Coop makes its lowest margins on textbooks, according to Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73, and unforeseen costs can crop up at the last minute. All of this is not to say that the Coop isn’t the best choice for distributing some coursepacks. With its central location and large size, the Coop is probably the only choice for courses like the aforementioned “Justice...