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...they take standardized tests or mark lottery tickets--by filling in circles or arrow lines on cards that are read on the spot by optical scanners. "You can have a multitude of people marking ballots at the same time, so you get rid of the waiting lines," says Ed Packard, election administrator in Alabama, where all but three of the state's 67 counties use the method. "And you can program the machines to kick overmarked ballots back to the voter to redo." The scanners also claim an optimal accuracy rate of 99%, but the scanning machines are costly...
...down 215 points to 10,386 and the NASDAQ down 158 to 2870. The Dow tends to be more responsive to political considerations; the tech index has plenty of its own troubles to worry about. A bad profit warning from Dow component and tech bellwether Hewlett Packard helped sellers in both indexes make up their minds Monday, but it's generally agreed that the dawning of another week of election madness is starting to be a big part of the problem across the board...
...will take a lot more than talent to restore Harvard to prominence. The royal Crimson has been tarnished over the past few seasons. It's up to them and the Moores, sophomore Brett Nowak, assistant captain Chris Bala, senior Oli Jonas, freshmen Dennis Packard, Kenny Smith, Kenny Turano and a host more to put them back there...
Although Mazzoleni likes to work rookies into the lineup slowly, freshman Dennis Packard, Kenny Turano, and Tim Pettit will all likely see a good portion of ice-time...
...adapting to the changing environment: more than half its revenues now come from digital products, its color machines are wildly popular, and it is well positioned to be a leader in on-demand, custom publishing. But a slew of newly aggressive players, from Canon and Ricoh to Hewlett-Packard, have done better, steadily encroaching on its once exclusive, very lucrative turf. From 1997 to 1999, Xerox's estimated share of the $1.3 billion-a-year, high-end, black-and-white production copier market in the U.S., where the real money is made, dropped from the near monopoly level...