Word: reaps
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...major labels have been slow to embrace the Internet, EMI insiders say Levy understands its potential. The company has already licensed music to more than 50 online music companies. If in the meantime Levy is successful in trimming costs and breaking new acts, EMI could be well positioned to reap the benefits of converting clicks to cash. That should have investors singing his praises
...Ecology of Information, Bernardo Huberman, who heads Internet research at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., explains that the Net actually follows predictable rules that can inform business decisions. Like the sports and entertainment worlds, the Internet is a winner-take-all marketplace where relatively few companies reap huge profits. There is a very low probability that a new site will attract significant traffic. And congestion, or "storms" that slow access to pages, can be predicted mathematically. A physicist and an expert in computational economics, Huberman explains his rules with models based on statistical mechanics--but uses straightforward language...
...Rock for kids who want to horse around for a while and need some beats to which they might safely bounce and flail. What brownie points the Ants have received in their brief lifespan, they mostly owe to Michael Jackson. Perhaps you’ve recently heard the guys reap the fruits of the King’s labor in their chunky-guitar cover of “Smooth Criminal,” or seen the smart-ass video. It’s on MTV in the late afternoon, y’know, after school...
...tourism board geniuses in Cambodia are turning Pol Pots jungle hideout into a lush resort. After some work, the drive from the site to tourist-friendly Siem Reap has been trimmed to just...
Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was a traditionalist who led Harvard to reap the benefits of the peace and prosperity of the 1950s. But traditionalism gave way to paternalistic inflexibility as his administration ended amidst the violent climax of student protest in the turbulent 1960s...