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...site is designed to limit the use of Harvard lingo and replace it with terms common to users outside the University, who constitute about 70 to 80 percent of the visitors, according to Wrinn...
...they show it. In what is known in surf lingo as snaking, men sometimes cut women off to catch the best waves. "Some guys are nice and give you tips," says Stone, "and others will scream, 'Get out of the way! It's my wave!'" Even pros like Ballard have to put up with snakes. "It is crazy," she says...
...slink home in frustration. A native New Yorker with a Harvard M.B.A., he appeared slick, headstrong and inexperienced. At 38 he was Mazda's youngest president ever--younger, in fact, than the average employee. He wore sharp suits (and still does). He had a habit of speaking in marketing lingo (which he no longer does). And like most foreigners in Japan, he committed the occasional faux pas. At one of his first dinners out with executives, he poured his own beer--a no-no among Japanese businessmen...
...member of our panel, Ray Kurzweil, an inventor, technology futurist and entrepreneur, observes that the human brain has no single "chief executive officer neuron." What gives the brain its power is not one boss but the ability of billions of neurons to conduct trillions of operations instantaneously. In computer lingo, that's called parallel processing, and it is something that today's man-made computers can accomplish only crudely. In everything from biology to business, this principle--a complex whole created by simple parts--is called emergence...
...dons of the Bombay underworld are unique in the annals of organized crime: they direct their operations in the city of their origin from outside the country?or "upstairs" as the underworld lingo has it? from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and, especially, from Pakistan. The most powerful criminal syndicate in India is headed by Shakeel and his godfather, Bombay native Dawood Ibrahim, son of a police constable, who now depend on the tender mercies of the Pakistani government for their continued existence...