Word: gathering
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...information technology courses, although at press time the catalog was still under development. Courses will be offered via the Web and satellite TV. Students from all over the world will be able to enroll in programs, which will cost anywhere from $300 to $700 each. The goal is to gather course material from universities and companies across the country. "With time constraints and family responsibilities, this kind of university can offer an easier solution," says Edwards...
...Yang and Filo put their doctoral theses on hold and moved into their first office, in nearby Mountain View, in the heart of Silicon Valley, near some railroad tracks. It was a relatively big suite, around 1,700 sq. ft., which they needed for the computer servers that would gather and store the data, and the people who would feed and care for them. But by the end of the year they needed more space and moved into a 12,000-sq.-ft. site in Sunnyvale, where they went public. "We thought, 'This is great. We'll never fill this...
...That leaves the LDP's old-boy network, as the Japanese themselves call it, to gather in the back rooms and pick the politico who'll try to restore the world's second largest economy to its former self. Do the Japanese need a better way? Perhaps, and eventually they may vote themselves into a real two-party system. But for now their prime minister will be selected by the leaders of the LDP's numerous factions, using their own private power-and-favor calculus. Meanwhile, voters are displaying little willingness to endure the tough measures -- such as pulling...
Even if they wanted to, most managed-care organizations aren't set up to gather such data; the computer programs needed to perform the necessary risk analyses are very different from those used for billing. Nor is there an independent governing body that could do the job. Currently, the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the nearest thing to an industry watchdog, issues rudimentary report cards on more than 300 different managed-care plans. Although it used to get most of its funding from the health-care industry, it has received only 40% from that source in recent years...
...Airbus is spending $9 billion to develop a plane it calls the A3XX and promises to roll out the monster by 2004. Boeing says its own "medium-large" 767s and 777s can easily connect cities such as Cincinnati, Ohio, and Frankfurt, Germany, eliminating the need for superjumbo jets to gather passengers from around the country at hub airports like New York City's J.F.K...