Word: developable
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...More jostling and bumptious in spirit than Kissing Jessica Stein, it shares a similar idea, which is that the way for romance to prosper in the modern world is to leave it some space to mess around with conventional expectations. These short, sweet (and low-budget) movies refuse to develop predictably. But they bring their charac ters to good, slightly surprising, quite satisfying places. And leave us beaming happily. --By Richard Schickel
While a CIA station officer posted overseas may require years of delicate handling to develop a source, a business can simply hire a local former law-enforcement or intelligence official and gain the benefit of his experience and sources. "If the former head of Saudi intelligence takes a consulting job with an oil company, that's not a big deal," says ex-military intelligence officer Edward Badolato, president of CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES, based in Washington. "But if he's discovered working for the CIA, he's liable to get hanged...
Businesses working in troubled regions often develop relationships with more elements of a country's society, including those that may be hostile to the government, than does the CIA. To stay neutral in a conflict, some businesses even risk irritating their host governments by hiring members of rebel groups. The CIA, as Badolato puts it, "doesn't stay in with the outs." A formal agreement between the U.S. and Britain prevents the two from spying in each other's country, Baer says. That means the U.S. could not have useful operatives in London mosques, and the British just...
...next stop in Samsung's digital march is the living room. To that end, the company has worked with Microsoft to develop Home Media Center, designed to control everything from your DVD player to the PC. Last June, Texas Instruments and Samsung signed an agreement to develop ultrathin, large-screen televisions based on TI's digital light-processing technology. In 1999 TI turned down a Samsung partnership offer, thinking it would be better to work with "established" brands. By last year it was clear that TI's initial partners were moving too slowly to get anything to market in good...
...digital home. Microsoft, AOL Time Warner, Apple and Sony are among the heavy hitters that are also betting that someday everything from our alarm clocks to our refrigerators will be linked to a constant stream of information and entertainment from the Internet. (AOL Time Warner has formed partnerships to develop digital hardware with both Samsung and Sony.) Samsung is gambling that it can move faster than its bigger rivals...