Word: grails
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...creates a moving battle map. The good guys are marked in blue; enemy coordinates, called in from the battlefield, are plotted in red. But not all vehicles in each unit have a computer screen to display the information, and the data aren't updated in real time. The Holy Grail of identification systems is an encoded radio signal sent from a vehicle to a target which, if friendly, will automatically reply in milliseconds. Despite years of research and negotiations, it will be at least two years until such a device can be produced and installed in all U.S. military vehicles...
...students hoping to find the Holy Grail of House intellectual community in their inboxes will likely be disappointed. Only a small fraction of the postings to these lists—14 percent in Quincy, 18 percent in Cabot—were comprised of five or more e-mails on the same topic. Within these “threads,” real discussion and debate are possible. But the topics that attract the most attention on House lists tend to be the most humorous. In February, the longest thread on Cabot-Open was 26 posts with the subject...
...opening their latest copy of Zagat’s to “Most Popular.” In this world, points are subtracted for celebrity chefs, and service and decor are only a detraction from delicious food, not a means to an end. The Holy Grail, the establishment that serves authentic”ethnic” cooking, not dumbed down for the American palate, is worth more than all others combined. It is often spoken of in hushed tones, with a reverent bow of the head, but so rarely found...
...made the pilgrimage from Boston to the holy grail of mindless TV addiction with the hope of becoming VJs for an unspecified project. Both of us had gotten vague e-mails about MTVU, a spinoff MTV channel theoretically geared specifically toward college students. Instead of broadcasting boy bands and bubble gum pop, MTVU would aim at a more sophisticated music audience. This is not to say that MTVU will entirely forgo programming that plays on stupidity—in fact, movies like Tom Green’s Road Trip are typical of the humor that MTVU will likely display. MTVU...
...Blue, of course, isn't the only one going after this industry Holy Grail. It will have to do battle with hardwaremakers like Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems; consultants like Accenture; outsourcers like EDS; and software players like BEA, Oracle and Microsoft. Its competitors snort that IBM simply glues together a hodgepodge of inferior systems--all too often pushing its own--and then charges big bucks to have its consultants keep them from breaking down, an approach they predict will soon lose its appeal. IBM's strategy "is an acknowledgment that the very technology it has been peddling all these...