Word: grandstanders
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...this Alisha hid her eyes in her mittens, and the Sharks reserves sank deep into their parkas on the bench. Someone in the green plastic chairs of the grandstand bellowed, "Get some black...
Still, the technology has been slow to evolve, and IBM nearly killed its speech-recognition project in the early 1990s, when the company was struggling. "We had no product," Kanevsky explains. So he made a grandstand play. He connected recognition software to a telephone and was able to read the words of callers from around the world without the help of a human transcriptionist. "It helped push the morale of speech researchers higher," he says, and impressed senior managers enough to save the project...
...Opening Day is Gossip Guy’s favorite day of the year. There’s nothing quite like the snap of lies against horsehide, the roar of the rumors, and vendors in the grandstand hawking hot innuendo...
...tickets yesterday," said spokesman Sean Harlin. The Twins were also getting help in Washington, where Minnesota Senators Paul Wellstone and Mark Dayton lobbied the Administration to strip baseball of its antitrust exemption. Given that the current President co-owned the Texas Rangers, this is what's known as a grandstand play...
...Recently, the Red Sox have been producing record attendance numbers despite having the highest ticket prices in baseball. In contrast, Olympic Stadium’s attendance is reaching record lows, and its V.I.P. seats behind home plate cost CAN$36, slightly cheaper than the US$25 obstructed-view outfield grandstand seats at Fenway Park. The favorable $1.50 Canadian-for-U.S. exchange rate enhances the visitors’ ability to acquire their respective hedonistic pleasures—families expose their children to French-Canadian tourism and culture, young couples wine and dine on the St. Lawrence waterfront and young males...