Word: fourths
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...done extensive surveys of individual companies on this issue, asked senior executives what they hoped to get out of their investments in computer power. Their four top goals: to improve service to customers, target new customers, improve quality of products or services, and reduce total costs. Only the fourth objective would have much effect on productivity statistics as they are currently measured, which reflects an old-fashioned bias toward things that can be readily counted. Nowadays, simply counting widgets doesn't tell us what's going on. Brynjolfsson likens that approach to the reasoning of the drunk in an ancient...
While the King, with his Casanova appeal, is wed to his fourth wife, the U.S.-born Lisa Halaby, Hassan's personal life has been conventional. He met his Pakistani wife, the energetic Princess Sarvath, in London when both were 11 and he gave her measles. The two have three daughters and a son Rashid, 19, a potential heir to the throne. Hassan made time for bedtime stories, reading the girls The Scarlet Pimpernel before they were school...
...position, according to studio estimates. "Antz" earned about $15.4 million, followed by Jackie Chan's "Rush Hour" with $11.5 million. "What Dreams May Come," an afterlife romance starring Robin Williams, fell one place to third with $11 million. The nightclub comedy "A Night at the Roxbury" held steady at fourth with $6.2 million...
...business schools at Northwestern University and the Universities of Chicago and Michigan placed second, third and fourth respectively in this year's rankings, which were announced yesterday evening...
While Cornell does not seem to provide much of a test for the surging Crimson, Harvard will look to build on its unbeaten streak in its quest for a fourth consecutive Ivy League Championship with a win over...