Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late summer last year "we told our clients, 'Take all your money out of Asia. Sell short,'" recalls Allen Sinai, chief global economist of Primark Decision Economics, a forecasting and consulting firm. In its worldwide model portfolio, it left only 5% for Japan. Says Sinai: "We doubled the allocation to Japan two months ago and put allocations back into South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore." Though many economists are dubious about how soon and how strongly Japan can recover from a long period of stagnation and now recession, Sinai pronounces himself "somewhat positive" on the outlook, at least...
Many student concerns aren't focused on the model of the computers or the chairs, but rather on maintenance of the labs...
...after two elderly sisters in the care of county workers were found starved to death, Judge Friedman was asked by the county board of supervisors to join a panel charged with investigating services to the aged. Within a year, Friedman and others on the panel had created a model system of programs to replace the one that had failed the hapless women. But in 1992, budget cutbacks forced its cancellation. Friedman quickly countered by launching ACE, a consortium of six agencies that agreed collaboratively to close the gap in services the county would no longer provide. Trained by the agencies...
...will actually see the final product, but a spokesman told me that the next Netscape/AOL browser will feature, for the first time, a completely rebuilt "layout engine"--the dynamo that melds the images, text and other media of a Web page and paints them on your screen. The new model is expected to load pages considerably faster, while taking up significantly less hard-drive space. That's a good thing since Navigator's current browser package (including a mail and calendaring program) uses around 20 megabytes of space. By comparison, the kit going out to developers on Monday fits...
...Hollywood showmanship, burdened with more ambitions and pricey hopes than any movie since Titanic, The Prince of Egypt means to tell the most imposing old fable using the most sophisticated forms of animation. But old traditions die hard--as they should, when they are as supple as the Disney model. Led by directors Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells, the DreamWorks team uses a more sumptuous version of that standard: romantic realism in the visual tones of 19th century storybooks. (Here the model is the etchings of Gustave Dore...