Word: nimbler
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...fast they do so is in large part up to us. With antibiotics, too little is not a good thing, observes Morse, and neither is too much. Unless we devise a formula that is just right, he predicts, we will forever be frantically racing to catch up with our nimbler microbial foes...
...driving force behind the breakup is AT&T's conviction that at current valuations the parts are worth more than the whole. The official line is that the smaller, nimbler companies will be more profitable independently. "With their own resources and asset-based stock they can shape their own destiny and future," says Armstrong. But the plan also reflects AT&T's frustration that investors have been so focused on its evaporating long-distance business. The split is designed to force Wall Street to pay more attention to faster-growing parts of the company...
...design Windows to boot up AOL or another Web address would erode its dominance. But PC makers are starting to win that kind of flexibility on their own. It comes down to a bet on Bill. He's had the answers so far, but he'll need to be nimbler from here...
...control early, making public the memos that confirmed the use of hot grenades, naming 40 agents to gather the facts and proposing that a reputable outsider head the new investigation. The extremely deliberate Reno would accede to all that later but seemed to be plodding two steps behind the nimbler FBI director. It wasn't the first time Freeh rushed to stake claim on the moral high ground. Reno's supporters say she deserved better...
...this movie offers us not one but two Zorros. There's an aging one, Don Diego (played with impeccable elegance by Anthony Hopkins), making a comeback after suffering a long imprisonment, to fight a resurgence of tyranny in old, Spanish-controlled California. In the process he recruits a young, nimbler apprentice, Alejandro (portrayed by Antonio Banderas), who's not afraid of acting a little dumb until his mentor smartens him up, cools his ardent blood and teaches him the skills that make him worthy of wearing the black mask of the gallant outlaw...