Word: hand-held
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slashed half a billion dollars from operating expenses. He used the savings to improve existing products, lower prices and aggressively roll out new items. Recently the company has been adding low-fat varieties that are hits. Aiding that strategy has been a 13,000-strong delivery force armed with hand-held computers that can track buying trends by the day and act accordingly...
...female, this was the Festival of Many Penises). But the fantasy this year was darker, more disturbing. One of the prime Palme d'Or contenders, Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, is a tale of religious and romantic belief, a kind of Song of Bernadette with a goofy, hand-held camera style and a bit of full-frontal. Yet the heroine's ultimate act of faith is to board a ship to be fatally abused by vicious sailors. She might have been seeking her rendezvous with God on a nightmare version of the PRIVATE ship...
...Kevin Nieusma, sales manager for Destron-Fearing, which has pioneered a new technology that allows pet owners to track their animals with a hand-held scanner. The company began development of the technology after the its owner had his prize horse stolen...
...film is directed by David Fincher ("Alien 3") who has spent much of his career directing music videos, and some of that new-age style is apparent in his use of hand-held cameras and lightning-fast jump-cuts. Nevertheless, "Seven" is an almost complete departure for him. In fact, this film is a departure for anyone. Even the opening titles are unlike anything that has come before them. They are a twisted version of an MTV program--"The Real World" gone psycho. Names and images flash onto the screen in blinding, blurry white, accompanied by booming, pulsating music...
...well. But his aides first tested the speech's broad themes with a focus group of Republican men and women in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Next they showed the tape to a "dial group'' of 30 Republicans -- some committed to Dole, some not -- in Cobb County, Georgia. Each was given a hand-held dial to register his or her approval of key passages; all voted 80% approval or more. Officials at other campaigns scoff at the front runner's overcalibration, but the careful market testing has helped Dole move away from talking about process and toward more presidential-sounding themes...