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...LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) chip for high-definition TVs, a pet project of Otellini's that (as president and COO) he had announced with much fanfare in January 2004, was abandoned in November when the cost of production became prohibitive. Waggish engineers made a disco ball out of defunct LCOS chips for Intel's holiday party. The company also blundered on its pricing of flash-memory chips, the kind found in cameras and the smallest of MP3 players; in both flash memory and chips for servers, Intel found itself losing ground to its biggest rival, Advanced Micro Devices...
HUCEP is also superior to the now defunct SafetyWalk program because HUCEP employees are paid as opposed to the volunteers in the student-run SafetyWalk. This, along with the fact that HUCEP is managed by HUPD, brings stability to HUCEP, ensuring that the service will not disappear without anyone knowing, as SafetyWalk...
...December 2003, University Hall discovered that HUCEP’s precursor, a student-run outfit known as SafetyWalk, had been defunct for a large portion of the year without anyone knowing...
After knocking out its last remaining challenger for Dartmouth’s first-place standing—the now-all-but defunct Brown Bears (16-9, 8-4 Ivy)—the Harvard women’s basketball team (17-7, 9-2) narrowed the Ivy title race to two and cleared the way for a captivating final regular season weekend...
...even if this is not feasible, Houses should strive next year to work more collaboratively in the tutor selection process. Certainly, the tutor system is not the be all and end all of academic advising. Many other changes need to take place such as reviving a largely defunct student advisory system, where upperclassmen would offer recommendations to fellow students—a move that administrators are fortunately considering in the Curricular Review. But the creation of House zones would greatly improve academic advising, and would do so with little to no cost to House life. All students, regardless of House...