Word: overlap
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...know someone with Alzheimer's? Until science comes up with better treatments, the best you can do is recognize its stages and give appropriate support and care. Not every patient exhibits the same symptoms, and the stages tend to overlap. But it helps to know the hallmarks of the disease and to have a plan for dealing with each stage before it arrives...
...teaching government and working in a presidential campaign, there is bound to be substantial overlap," she says. "There are definitely things that I work on in the campaign that I end up using in class...
...American and Northwest combo, says Greenwald, would have far greater route overlap (a red flag for competition-minded regulators) than the neatly complementary maps of United and US Airways. And United is divesting what little there is, at Washington's Reagan Airport, creating DC Air and handing it to BET mogul Robert Johnson in a little backyard lobbying of the Capitol crowd. But even that merger will get a very close look from the Justice Department, Congress, even the Europeans - not to mention the unions involved - and some analysts are giving it no better than a 50-50 shot...
...heading into the second, or growth, quarter, when hot new industries appear, much as semiconductors and software did in the second quarter of the info economy. Thus biotech will pave the way for the bioec era. During the next two decades, organic biotech will overlap with inorganic silicon infotech and inorganic composite materials and nanotechnologies...
During the overlap of infotech and biotech, we will be digitizing many biological processes. Up until now, four kinds of information dominate: numbers, words, sounds and images. But information comes in many other forms, such as smell, taste, touch, imagination and intuition. The problem is that our technologies for smell, taste and other new information forms aren't yet developed enough to make them commercially viable. By the 2020s, they will...