Word: press
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Former University of Miami of Ohio coach Mark Mazzoleni was officially introduced as the new head coach of the Harvard men's hockey team at a press conference on Wednesday, becoming only the fourth head coach to lead the Crimson in 50 years...
...student asked about the effect of refugee flow on Tanzanian economics and development, pointing out that many of its neighboring countries are engaged in war. Mkapa replied that there was a special need to press for peace in the region and said that UN support was needed to monitor the process...
...Japan. When those countries were slow to deliver on promised energy aid, Pyongyang feinted toward rebuilding its nuclear program before allowing inspection of its facilities in exchange for promises of aid. Recent preparations for long-range missile tests were also widely interpreted as an attempt to press for more economic assistance amid a deepening food crisis. "Washington and its allies in the region believe it?s worth dangling economic carrots rather than facing down an unpredictable state in a potentially catastrophic confrontation," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "If we leave North Korea starving but isolated and it tries...
...Economics, sees the Internet as having unleashed powerful competitive forces ?- new efficiencies in the way corporations do business ?- that may have changed the rules an awful lot. "The Internet structural change is a very big one, in the class of the railroad, the airplane, the automobile or the printing press," he says. "It should increase productivity growth and lower product prices. It could be the wild card for an inflationless prosperity." In other words, increased competitiveness among U.S. corporations with Net-connected companies around the globe could make the business world so efficient ?- with profits coming from productivity...
...this age could well be better than the last. But to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, eternal vigilance could well be the price of freeware. In the beginning, the primary allure of the Web was that everyone on it immediately had their own stage, their own printing press, and the government seemed out of earshot. Now that the Internet has become a backbone of corporate America and of the nation's thriving economy, it is getting more attention from the government from ever. According to these guys, it dearly needs...