Word: roughness
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...battles are bound to be fierce. Says Mark Daugherty, who follows the airline industry for the Dean Witter Reynolds investment firm: "People Express is about to test its pain threshold. Cracking these markets is not going to be easy if American and Delta play rough." During the past several years Delta has successfully squelched United's attempts to expand its Atlanta business. "We have been developing this market for 41 years," says a Delta spokesman. Both American and Delta have already matched People's fares, although they have imposed certain restrictions. Moreover, they offer frequent-flyer bonus programs, while People...
...first, Fields' car was merely plastered with plastic warning stickers and towed twice. Then things got rough. Over a three-month period, he was suspended by Ford seven times, culminating in a 30-day stretch off the job. Each time he filed a grievance, but his union failed to back him. Finally, last week Fields was fired. The company told him he could return with full seniority and pension rights, but only if he parked in the back lot or bought a domestic car within 60 days...
...effortless? One theory about Coulter is that she is less Joe McCarthy and more a right-wing Ali G, acting out a character who utters what the rest of us won't. ("That led him to masturbate into [White House] sinks?" she asked in 1999, when President Clinton's rough childhood was mentioned on Rivera Live...
...limited edition version of “Prisoners of Love” also features a third disc featuring outtakes and rarities of the band’s catalog throughout the years. The unreleased material is meager, made up of rambling rough cuts of the refined Yo La Tengo melodies. The rarities, on the other hand, are consistently on par with their album tracks, most notably with a jagged cover of noise legends Dead C.’s “Bad Politics” and a remix of “Autumn Sweater” by Kevin Shields that...
...very easy to make something look smooth, like plastic or ice," says Wayne Carlson, director of production at Cranston/Csuri Productions in Columbus. "What's difficult is to give something the mottled look of bark, leaves or grass." Texture mapping, a computer technique akin to wrapping a photograph of a rough rock around a smooth stone, is one solution to the problem. Another involves the use of a class of equations called fractals. "It's a technology for filling in random surfaces in a way that mimics the way nature is random," explains Lucasfilm Researcher Robert Cook. "You want a rock...