Word: customs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among the most prominent is Bill Budge, 28, who has written two of the industry's biggest entertainment hits: Raster Blaster, a computerized pinball game, and Pinball Construction Set, a program that allows players to custom-build their own video pinball machine. He earned $500,000 in 1982 and resides in a $240,000 eight-room house with a spectacular view of San Francisco Bay. Budge, though, does not spend his day admiring the scenery. Most of the time he is down in the yellow-walled basement, swigging cans of Coke while hunched over a computer...
Until recently, there was little incentive for the Japanese to develop a software industry of their own. Software was usually custom designed by computer manufacturers and included in the price of the machine. Hardware engineers were granted higher pay and had more status than software designers. Language and culture also presented formidable barriers to Japanese software makers trying to penetrate the U.S. market. In developing tax-computation programs, for example, it is not easy for computer experts in Tokyo to try to keep up with legal changes in the U.S., some 5,000 miles away...
Before the Finnish border, the train jolted to a stop. I stood up, looked out the window and saw a swarm of uniformed custom officers surrounded and climb onto the train. This had happened upon entrance into Russia but still the experience remains numbing...
...building, where a mammoth door of six panels, each measuring 30 ft. high and 130 ft. wide, will slowly rise, just like a garage door. Inside the building-within-a-building, the payload will be lifted into the orbiter's cargo bay and secured in niches that are custom designed for each piece of space baggage...
Viewed as a creative means of familiarizing Americans with Tibetan custom. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a thought-provoking, often powerful performance which leaves the audience highly intrigued. Yet because it proves so cumber some to imbibe such ritual with the accompanying level of theatricality, the show fails to develop and sustain our interest. How much one can be moved by the performance ultimately depends on the intensity and extent of one's religious and philosophical convictions. If you're looking for an opportunity to supplement your foreign cultures requirement and are up for an intensely thought provoking...