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...build ever more elaborate toys. The arrival of powerful computer workstations in the late 1980s gave the quants the number-crunching capacity they needed to bring forth their brainchildren. Now Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley each spend anywhere from $800 million to $1.2 billion a year to hone their derivatives operations. The money goes for the computers and software it takes to design and monitor derivatives contracts, and for the salaries of the quants who pilot the equipment...
...course, attracting fans might be a problem, but I think the athletes would hone their skills and by the time it became a medal event, it would be safe for everyone involved: participants, judges and fans...
...senior Chris Wood, Harvard rallied to tie the score at 12-12, a surge which prompted an informal cheer from the hone crowd. The teams battled back and forth to a 14-14 even score when Harvard scored two fast points to put the game away...
Movies and TV are passive experiences. The VR games are interactive. And the more active you are, the more you can enter into them. Players who hone their kill skills develop a zestful proficiency; they become self-improvement junkies while the merchants get rich. VR can also be a socializing medium, even of the zap-you're-dead! variety. TV, video games and videocassettes keep folks hermited away; VR gets them out of the house with a new gimmick -- a twist on the lures that '50s moviemakers, faced with the challenge of TV, offered film audiences with Cinerama's roller...
...Brien, of course, will get some time to hone his act. Airing an hour later than most of his late-night competitors, he is under less pressure to deliver a big audience. Ratings on opening night, NBC was happy to reveal, exceeded what Letterman got in the same time period a year ago. Letterman, meanwhile, is rolling along on his new CBS show, regularly beating Tonight's Jay Leno and Fox's new Chevy Chase Show (which since its premiere has slipped from second to third place...