Word: forde
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...agreed to join is that of NuTech Solutions, a closely held company founded three years ago in Charlotte, N.C., by a pair of Polish immigrants. NuTech creates software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to boost efficiency in its clients' manufacturing, distribution and customer service. NuTech software allows Ford to find profitable new ways to sell vehicles that are coming off leases. It helps Unilever target inefficiencies in its supply chain. And it is being used to detect check and credit-card fraud at Bank of America--whose legendary former CEO, Hugh McColl, also serves on NuTech's board...
...Australian male is--who else?--whatsizname, him with the big knife, star of Crocodile Dundee. Aussies (wrongly pronounced Awzies; the correct pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudointimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed to be as straight as Harrison Ford or John Wayne, despite our superficially confusing habit of addressing a friend or a stranger of the same sex as "mate...
...Claudio Del Vecchio took a trip to the warehouse that keeps the company's archives. When a business has been around since 1818, you wind up with a lot of history?especially when you're talking about the retailer that sold Abraham Lincoln the overcoat he wore to Ford's Theatre, F.D.R. the cape he donned at Yalta, Fred Astaire the neckties he used as belts and generations of men the suits they wore to their first jobs on Wall Street...
...million medical-device maker in Yokneam, Israel, known for its patented "elos" technology, which combines bipolar radio frequency and light sources to combat the signs of aging. "P&G clearly views the consumer segment of aesthetics as a big market," says Jose Haresco, a senior analyst for Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. in San Francisco. "It's not taking a small bet here." Expect to be able to buy some of these gizmos by the end of next year at the earliest, at prices ranging from...
...this is a great story: Big Red quarterback Nathan Ford is knocked out early in last week’s game at Dartmouth. Sophomore wide receiver Stephen Liuzza, still wearing his catching gloves, comes on to take the snaps. In just three quarters, he posts 423 yards of total offense—292 through the air on 26-of-40 passing and another 131 on the ground on 29 carries...