Word: golds
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WASHINGTON: The Big Five tobacco companies are a wary cartel: always in competition but still bound together, in charge of the same pot of gold. Now one of them is going under the hot lights, giving them all a new reason to be nervous. Brown & Williamson Tobacco was the "unindicted co-conspirator" in the guilty plea Wednesday of a California biotech firm called DNAP, which was convicted of breeding high-nicotine tobacco plants (illegal under U.S. law) and smuggling seeds out of the country to be farmed in Brazil...
Mounted on the circuit board is a microprocessor, which is housed in a protective container and connected to rows of gold-plated pins...
Fifty years ago this week--shortly after lunch on Dec. 23, 1947--the Digital Revolution was born. It happened on a drizzly Tuesday in New Jersey, when two Bell Labs scientists demonstrated a tiny contraption they had concocted from some strips of gold foil, a chip of semiconducting material and a bent paper clip. As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it and switch...
...Marc Anthony Contra la Corriente (RMM) In this collection, rising Latin star Anthony sings salsa with youthful vigor and old-school showmanship. His voice is a flash of gold, blinding and enticing in its purity. The songs are in Spanish, but whether you habla espanol or not, Anthony's talent comes through, no translation needed...
Upon his death, the senior monks of Lhasa set about finding his successor in the traditional fashion. The regent went to the sacred lake of Lhamoi Lhatso, famous for its visions, and saw in its waters an image of a gold-roofed, three-story monastery beside a winding path. Other signs appeared. The embalmed body of the departed ruler seemed to move from pointing south to pointing toward the northeast. And auspicious cloud formations also appeared in the northeast. When a search party of monks arrived at the 20-family settlement of Takster, in the northeastern province of Amdo...