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...empty TV studio. He wasn't keen about the idea-and he didn't deliver it very well. But his aides first tested the speech's broad themes with a focus group of Republican men and women in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Next they showed the tape to a "dial group'' of 30 Republicans -- some committed to Dole, some not -- in Cobb County, Georgia. Each was given a hand-held dial to register his or her approval of key passages; all voted 80% approval or more. Officials at other campaigns scoff at the front runner's overcalibration, but the careful market testing...
Gates doesn't control too much, he controls too little. Encourage him to finish building his monopoly. Let him manage the flow of bits end-to-end, from the boxes that sit on our desktops to the servers that run mighty networks. Let him provide the digital dial tone for the information superhighway. Look the other way while Microsoft gobbles up cable and telephone companies so it can have a direct information pipeline into every home. Ignore it when Gates colonizes Hollywood and starts running the film and TV industry. Give him Intuit. And throw in the banks...
Lations constitute an estimated 40 percent of Los Angeles county residents, and they will likely be a majority within a decade. Their presence in the city is strong. Many public messages are printed in both English and Spanish. A scan of the radio dial reveals almost as many Spanish-language stations as English-language...
...office air conditioning, that's another matter. Bronson describes a sales floor where twitchy, sweating wretches are flogged back to their cubicles by a demented sales manager when they sprint for the rest rooms. They pluck random, cooked statistics from their Quotrons, bark hopeless lies into speed-dial phones, fill impossible quotas by selling federal Resolution Trust bonds back to the very failed savings and loans into which the government is trying to pump life-giving formaldehyde...
...four computer systems handling the pictures couldn't talk to one another. Today Intelink users can punch up on their computers the most recent satellite photos, as well as thousands of pages of classified reports from various intelligence agencies. White House aides monitoring the Chechnya crisis were able to dial into Intelink for daily CIA updates on the civil war. Advisers confused about conflicting news reports on the fighting referred to another menu item: an animated video, based on satellite photos, that showed how Russian and Chechen soldiers were maneuvering against each other in the capital city of Grozny...