Word: seamless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These breakneck deals are possible because Wall Street today has transformed itself into a virtually seamless network of computer-linked brokers, dealers and exchanges around the globe. It is no longer (if it ever really was) defined by the canyons of buildings surrounding the New York Stock Exchange near the southern tip of Manhattan. The trades take place in an electronic neverland that can be entered from anywhere in the world. Billion-dollar transactions involving derivatives or other securities that once took hours or days to handle are now routinely completed in seconds -- with all the potential risk or reward...
...Mexico's 90 million citizens know but sometimes try to forget, their country is not a seamless unity but a patchwork of dissimilar people and unequal progress. Roughly the top half of the country has joined the 21st century; the rest is mired in unyielding poverty. Differences among the pieces of the mosaic have increased, and the gap between rich and poor has widened during the country's economic advance. Salinas began his six-year term in & office in 1988 by selling off hundreds of bloated state-owned companies and deregulating private industry; he tightened credit to bring inflation down...
...most honest picture is one that has been fooled with the least. He crops and retouches; he coaxes the sitter and takes multiple shots until the subject's self-presentation matches some need of his own. More recently he's been combining three or four negatives in a seamless collage technique that produces what appears to be a single picture. Even when he seems to be following rules, he can be subverting them. The intense clarity of his portraits gives them the appearance of a documentary record, yet these are highly wrought -- and expensive -- art objects intended to serve Avedon...
...must strive to improve service so that the transfer of mail from the U.S. Postal Service is seamless. U.S. Mail guidelines dictate that first-class mail must be delivered within three days in the contiguous 48 states. We deserve no less...
...laughing. Led briskly by Margaret Gibson, playing Mrs. Prentice, the cast adheres strictly to the whimsical spirit of Orton's text. The set (designed by Derek McLane) and costumes (by Catherine Zuber) reinforce the historical context of the play. Under the direction of David Wheeler, the A.R.T. production is seamless, except for a few chaotic moments when the stage order unnecessarily falls apart. Overall, however, the play is well excecuted...