Word: retools
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...explained his plan for a Java-based softwareprogram that would help small businesses todevelop networks among themselves. "The basic ideais to retool the existing Web to build a richeroverall network for the exchange of data," hesaid...
Gordon, together with his beauty-queen wife Brooke, is featured on packages of Close-Up toothpaste. Once a top seller in the '70s, the Chesebrough-Pond's brand is using Gordon and his wife to retool the product. With their faces on 3.5 million collectible packages and 25,000 store displays, the company says it has gained record market share."It's been phenomenal," says Nancy Heller, brand manager for Close-Up. "We thought it was going to be a regional program, and to our surprise, we were able to do this nationally...
...dramatic. But in a state as diverse as California, any decrease in the admission of underrepresented students is both significant and dramatic. The drop in minority admissions across the entire system is disturbing, not to be shrugged off as liberal alarmist rhetoric. The University of California must rethink and retool its eligibility and admission policies to reflect the needs of an increasingly diverse state. We need to level the playing field and engage in a reassessment of our present definition of academic merit. EUGENE GARCIA, Professor and Dean Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, Calif...
...McKenna makes plain, that's easier said than done. Trading in the security of prestige, promotions and power lunches for the more ephemeral rewards of greater flexibility, balance and freedom may require a woman not only to rework her finances but also to retool her very identity. McKenna admits that after walking out on corporate life, "I felt like a nonperson." Though she'd left to pursue a career in writing, peers assumed she'd gone home to be a mommy--a common misperception about women who step off the conventional fast track. "The immediate defense is to devalue your...
...cable and DBS can't ignore the digital future. So they'll probably have to upgrade eventually to support digital traffic--although the additional bandwidth will cut into the number of channels they can offer--while cable services like HBO retool to produce digital shows. A few years hence, your local cable or satellite guy will start offering, alongside the usual 60 analog channels, a tier of scintillating HDTV programming, with brilliant color and sound...