Word: proofing
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...measure of what it means to live with style?whether it's in reference to food, fashion or manners. The Ferragamo name is synonymous with beautiful shoes, but what is most impressive about the family is the style they bring to all that they do. They're living proof that taste comes from within. You can't buy it (although you can certainly buy tasteful things, as Kristina Zimbalist points out in her story about how hedge-fund managers spend their spoils...
...which they pay extra to get part of their electricity from wind, solar or water generators. The Liberal-National coalition has promised to phase out incandescent light bulbs and increase rebates for green appliances; Labor is offering voters low-interest loans of up to $9,000 to help climate-proof their homes...
...that Apple's Macintosh created a graphic user interface, GUI (pronounced goo-ey), that made it easy for ordinary mortals to use personal computers, Land has laid claim to what he unabashedly calls a VUI (voo-ey), or vocal user interface. The idea is that companies need an idiot-proof building-block system to assemble easy-to-use services with which customers feel comfortable. "All business is vocal," Land likes...
...given market. People then judge the stations they’ve listened to recently, send their surveys back to Arbitron, and let them compile the data to send to radio stations. Stations then shell out a meager $40,000 for the complete results and use the statistical proof of their superiority as leverage with advertisers.But all this is about to change. Arbitron is officially entering the 21st century and revolutionizing the ratings game with the introduction of a pager-like device called the Portable People Meter (PPM). The PPM supposedly “detects inaudible codes embedded in the audio...
...Australia has never honored its artists, intellectuals, writers and musicians as fully as its sports figures; there is always an undertow of resentment, of the lowbrows' residual suspicion that the highbrow is conning them. Everyone bitches about this; nobody does anything about it. It is hardwired into us, a proof of "toughness...