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...knew, had long excelled at developing products featuring liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). It released the first mass-market LCD calculator in 1973, developed its first flat-panel LCD TV in 1987 and dabbled in LCD televisions throughout the 1990s. Building on that foundation, Machida moved LCD TVs to the forefront of Sharp's strategy. He spent heavily over three years on the design, manufacture and marketing of a new flagship TV brand dubbed Aquos, and his bet paid off. Launched in January 2001--a moment referred to inside the company as the Big Bang--Aquos quickly became the coolest name...
...Iraq spending to pay for hurricane relief. Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita downplays those figures, asking, "What is it worth to avoid another 9/11?" But privately, Pentagon officials acknowledge that the reservoir of public faith in the war effort is running dangerously low. "The issue of American staying power is forefront in our minds," says a military officer. "Everything has costs...
Many new methods for assessing drivers are just now entering the market. Some are getting their first use at nonprofit senior-safety centers, whose numbers have expanded following the Santa Monica watershed. Florida has been at the forefront, having established five prototype driver-assessment centers in different cities. Each center uses DriveABLE, a system for examining drivers who are cognitively impaired because of dementia or complications of such medical conditions as stroke or diabetes...
...have a strong arts heritage here at Harvard,” Gross said in a statement. “The Hasty Pudding Theatricals is in the forefront of that heritage, having been a fixture here since the late 1700s. We are very happy that we will be able to give them, and several other student performance groups at Harvard, a wonderful new home so that old traditions may continue, and new ones may begin...
...then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge ’67 in April, 2004, in which he argued that visa restrictions and other barriers to international students could precipitate a braindrain of foreign graduate students. This in turn, he said, could hurt America’s position at the forefront of technological and academic innovation...