Word: hat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peeves me that we don't stop to think; we fire verbally at anything that moves. I don't expect immediate understanding, but I shouldn't have to wear an orange hat to answer the phone. I and many others cannot warn you ahead of time that we are vulnerable. Don't shoot until you have identified your target...
...woman with a Yankee hat stopped in front of us to watch Bob Oreda face the final batter. When the Sox hurler had gotten two strikes on the batter, someone yelled down, "Hey, lady, I have the Yankees and I hate...
Automatic speech recognition, the technology that enables computers to respond to spoken commands, is old hat to fictional electronic brains like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but still a primitive art in the real world. Computers are not yet discerning enough to cope with the ambiguities of spoken language or with a wide range of accents and tonal qualities. Making sense out of human discourse, says Dataquest Analyst Kenneth Lim, "is quite possibly the most difficult thing for a computer to do, other than actually thinking...
...what do you charge?" an advertising executive asked Kushner one morning. It was one of those soft San Francisco days--a day that makes a fellow feel like tossing his hat in the air--and Kushner had gone into it wearing his best three-piece blue suit ("Hey! When you're a humor consultant, you can use all the credibility you can get!"). The air in his conference room, however, was not as rosy as that outside. The executive, not a warm man it would seem, had conceded Kushner 30 minutes only after lengthy persuasion. He had already brushed aside...
...members estimate that the organized-crime bar consists of about 200 lawyers nationwide, with the most notorious numbering about 25 and based in Miami, New York, Chicago and Las Vegas. The burgeoning drug trade has spawned a new, younger group of organized-crime lawyers. "The image of the black-hat mouthpiece who can make witnesses disappear is completely out of date," says one Kaufman commission staff member. The new breed are sophisticated wheeler-dealers who help cocaine or heroin kingpins to conceal and invest their profits. They "see themselves as the Errol Flynns of their day, daring and bold," says...