Word: high-tech
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...they're calling the investigation PENTTBOM, for Pentagon Twin Towers Bombing, and running the probe from inside the agency's high-tech Special Information and Operations Center, a 40,000-sq.-ft. command post in Washington where FBI Deputy Director Tom Pickard supervises the 4,000 agents and 3,000 analysts and support people working the case. Pickard's team had received 46,125 tips by last Saturday, which they were farming out to field offices and 31 other agencies working with them on the case. Pickard, 51, a native of Queens, faces the colossal task of shaping the information...
...GLOBAL MELTDOWN The high-tech bust makes Japan's recovery tougher. Exports are falling, and domestic consumption is so weak that prices are falling and banks are sitting on mountains of bad debt Koizumi's plan: The central bank is in effect printing more money to try to stimulate the economy. Koizumi wants to force bad businesses to fail, meaning more short-term pain Outlook: POOR. His reform agenda is in peril because of the economic slide
...stands in front of a peristyle hall whose high masonry walls are inset with false windows. This entrance hall in turn opens onto a vast ovoid, some 90m across, that formed the sanctuary itself. The ovoid is enclosed by a thick, curving wall of limestone blocks covered with inscriptions, some of which are more than 12m long. The afsm team believes the remains of the wall, along with additional inscriptions, extend more than 9m beneath the sand, and it is exploring the site using ground-penetrating radar and other high-tech tools...
...skips down stairs leading to the basement of his 10,000-sq.-ft. colonial manor in Brookville on New York's Long Island. Half the basement is being turned into a bar. The other half bristles with expensive, high-tech equipment and is littered with CDs, papers and recent photographs of friends and family taken by his wife, Dayanara Torres, 26, with her new digital camera. For the past three weeks, Anthony has spent entire evenings down here, smoking more Newports than usual, as he gets closer to completing his album. He digs through a pile of CDs. "This album...
...other words, do you convince listeners with high-tech jobs and PlayStations that they're working on Maggie's farm? Through the '90s, that was essentially the mission of Rage Against the Machine, which covered that Dylan classic on its last album, Renegades (2000). Apropos of another of its Renegades covers, Kick Out the Jams, Rage aimed to be a modern-day MC5, using hard-edged music to ram through a hard-nosed message that was less about peace and love than about old-fashioned, a-pink-slip-and-a-six-pack populist anger. But they were also...