Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrate, he and Wang hold a meeting to discuss the results of survey research his sub-team has been conducting. Conrad is anxious about making his volumes of data relevant for the old-school client. Wang has been brought in to support Conrad's efforts by applying the fancy Excel tricks she has recently learned. Conrad is visibly relieved to have someone to bounce ideas off of and he insists that I call Wang "Powerhouse," a nickname she has earned for her ability to absorb skills and produce results when the team is in a pinch...
...After lunch in the company cafeteria, Wang returns to the team room to get started on some of the work she has agreed to do in support of Mike and Conrad. This mainly consists of managing pieces of presentations, crunching numbers in Excel and producing visual depictions of data that are simple enough to be presented to the client. During the next two hours, Wang's job begins to look a lot like those of her friends in investment banking which she describes as a low-level information gathering exercise that consists of "sitting in front of a spreadsheet...
...course, the creative, intelligent computer has done far better in capturing the public imagination than have its unexciting number-crunching counterparts. A world in which computers were as creative as humans would seem to leave the poor carbon-based creatures little room to excel, especially if their silicon rivals continued to increase in speed and capacity for processing information at an exponential rate. What would the humans do in a world where their machines outsmart them...
...fastest sprinters on the team, junior Jamie Waters will be a key figure on both the freestyle and individual medley relays. Rosen is also expected to excel in this event. Since the medleys count for double the points that individual events do, they will be important to Harvard as it looks to qualify for NCAAs...
...books" that both the University afadsfasfasfasfnd the union worked on to find and compensate the casuals included a 70,000-line Microsoft Excel document...