Word: naming
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Bush was unable to name the heads of state of four countries of particular importance to U.S. foreign policy--Pakistan, India, Chechnya, and Taiwan--prompting a wave of monologue jokes and whispers about Bush's competency...
Brutus.1, a system developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was designed to write short stories on the subject of betrayal--hence the treacherous name. To teach the innocent computer its sinful ways, the computer scientists who designed it set about "mathematizing the concept of betrayal through a series of algorithms and data structures." Most people might assume that betrayal is not easily mathematized, a subject for human emotion and not for symbol manipulators, but the computer seems to have picked up the vice rather well. (A Rensselaer press release states that the programmers also taught Brutus.1 something of deception, evil...
...www.instantnovelist.com, Brutus.1 competed against four humans who wrote short stories on the same topic. The computer's entry, "Self-Betrayal," was unremarkable; its first sentence, "Dave Striver loved the university--at least most of the time," seems to fail the "Call me Ishmael" test, and the protagonist's name is clumsily allegorical. In fact, the story came in last in a poll of visitors to the site; the literary field is for now safe from a deluge of machine-produced prose...
...Hoboken, N.J., after his heirs made it clear they had no interest in carrying on the business. But he held out until he found a buyer, Workflow Management of Palm Beach, Fla., that would pledge to keep his 165 employees. "I know almost all the employees by name," says Batkin. "I know their families. It was very important to me that I sell to a company that was not going to liquidate and move the business somewhere else...
...insurance does not add up with it. Do you have separate accounts totaling more than $100,000 at two merging financial institutions? First, congratulations. Second, remember the combined amount will be covered only until six months after the merger is completed. Beyond that, deposits held under the same name or type of account are insured only up to the $100,000 limit. "It's up to you to restructure your accounts during the six months," says FDIC counsel Christopher Hencke. If you have single-ownership accounts, you can convert one to a joint account...