Word: householder
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...forms design and printing in the Decennial Systems and Contract Management Office of the Census Bureau (she must have foldout business cards), used three separate, entirely unscientific sample groups in arriving at the estimate. First, she asked a group of colleagues with a wide range of educational backgrounds and household sizes to take the new forms home and jot down how long it took to complete them. Next, she asked friends and neighbors to do the same. Finally, Kelly and her staff watched videotapes of focus groups filling out forms, and then timed how long it took for the participants...
Cisco's rise signifies a new phase of the technological revolution. Microsoft ruled the first phase, marked by decreasing microprocessor costs and cheaper data storage, which made the PC a household appliance. That confluence of technologies resulted in cell phones, game platforms, pagers and a host of other smart devices that are now in place...
...likely. we've deployed everything from sex hormones to roach-killing wasps in our billion-dollar war against the cockroach, and we haven't made much of a dent. Over the past decade, better bait and smarter tactics have knocked the roach from first to third on the household-pest hit parade (after ants and termites), but there are still a lot more of them than...
...continue to raise rates? The Fed plainly is paramountly concerned that rising stock prices are creating such a glow around the nation's dinner tables that a family spending barrage is about to render household goods scarce and send consumer prices spiraling through the roof. It's an interesting theory. It's also a leap that could shut down the expansion prematurely and tarnish Greenspan's sterling reputation--potentially derailing Al Gore's presidential train, much as a weak economy did George Bush...
Things took a strange turn in the Phillips household last year when David, a civil engineer at the University of California at Davis, turned to his schoolteacher wife Cindy and said with disquieting urgency, "I'm going to go to the bank and get some money. We have to buy as much pudding as we possibly...