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...have many more sticks than they do," he said, referring to wooden posts for holding Kennedy signs higher than Romney signs, many of which were hand-held...
Ever wonder how commercial airlines keep the air in the passenger cabin fresh and circulating? They wouldn't just recycle the air, would they? Well, it looks like a lot of them do. An intrepid study in the August issue of Consumer Reports -- 40 volunteers used hand-held instruments to measure air quality on 158 flights by 20 airlines -- found that almost a quarter of commercial flights don't meet a basic standard for air freshness. The problem, airline employee unions and researchers say, is that newer-model planes recycle as much as half of their ventilation air, instead...
...Stan must be asking 10,000 questions a year on Bill Clinton." For all its clients combined, Hart's firm asks about 25,000 questions in a year. And when Clinton delivers a major speech, Greenberg sets up groups of people who watch and register their reactions on a hand-held device called a dial-a-meter...
Gates demonstrated the scope of his goals once more last week by taking on Motorola with his Teledesic proposal. Motorola has announced plans for its own satellite-linked worldwide system, through a new firm called Iridium. While Iridium is designed for portable devices such as phones and hand-held computers, Teledesic is intended for fixed locations, such as offices. Both ventures will compete with the U.S. phone companies, which are busily laying cable for a fiber-optic system costing at least $100 billion that will carry video signals and data as well as voice communications. Both systems will also require...
Many of the actors seem fundamentally removed from their characters and present a muddled interpretation of Aristophanes' play--neither conveying nor critiquing its true spirit. The chorus' efforts to aestheticize the obscenity through dance, ominous vioces and hand-held masks, and thereby to introduce a deeper level to the sexual conflict, are awkwardly staged and difficult...